Most high school couples don’t span all four years — but most high school couples aren’t seniors Emily Little and Jonty Harris-Webster.
With him being a football player and her being a cheerleader, they’ve gotten a couple comments about living the American Dream.
They met in middle school honor band, but really got to know each other in high school. Little and Harris-Webster were on a double date freshman year, watching “Spider-Man: Homecoming” in the theaters when she worked up the nerve to ask him to the Sweetheart dance.
“It’s really funny because I misheard her,” Harris-Webster said. “I thought she said, ‘Do you want to meet my dad?’”
The ask got lost in the noise of the theater, yet still, Harris-Webster responded with a hesitant “yes.”
In the end, they went to Sweetheart together, and, three months after that, were officially a couple. Since then, they’ve been on a hundred dates and been on Homecoming court together. They’ve even been to Harris-Webster’s older brother’s wedding in Arizona — and the two of them had been together longer than Harris-Webster’s brother and wife.
The secret to their relationship?
“Communication,” Little said. “Neither of us would do anything to hurt each other on purpose.”
“I want the best for her and I feel like, you know, she wants the best for me,” Harris-Webster said.
As for the future, Little and Webster both plan to attend KU next fall — her for nursing and him for engineering physics. There they hope to spend even more time together.
