Taran, 25, and Cleo, 26, met at university. One night they kissed – then decided to become best friends instead
When Taran met Cleo during freshers’ week at the University of Exeter in 2016, little did he know that she would become his best friend. “I wasn’t sure I was going to like university,” he says. “I didn’t enjoy my first lecture, but then I met a few people from my history course and ended up going back to their halls.”
Cleo was one of the people who lived there. She says: “I had just started studying law and wasn’t sure about the flat. There were 12 rooms and a shared kitchen and I was just getting used to it.” At freshers’ week parties, she started getting to know people – and met Taran for the first time. “Everyone was calling her Renault Clio, after the car, so I went up and called her Cleopatra,” he says. “I’d had a few drinks, though, so I don’t remember much else about her from that night.”
