we can always say they randomly met on campus anyway! maybe she was trying to sell back old textbooks for more than three dollars at the university bookstore and he was there staring mournfully at the single-purpose $120 clicker some really bitter professor required even though it was 2015 and smartphones were ubiquitous, and they struck up a conversation? tyler's very friendly and outgoing and since he'd have just moved back then he would've been like "yes hello you have made eye contact with me we are now friends" much like a golden retriever.