good morning! so just doing a bit of thinking about their relationship & what happened but i'm thinking that their parents were friends? maybe his family moved to san fran when he was in high school and his dad just so happened to be someone that her dad wanted an insta-connection with? like he could have been a business man or another politician or maybe even a college friend. so when their parents started hanging out together, they just suggested the two of them going on a date so much that eventually they did? and even if they stayed together for a while, their relationship was always pretty forced? that aspect could have been totally overlooked until they both graduated and went their separate ways. they could still be friends, if you want, but nowadays when their parents try and suggest how sweet they were together or how they really thought they'd get married, the two of them know better now.
she has a twin in ~anrew and another family friend in ~aq so he'd get a couple of other connections as well!