They should be nauseating. There they are, Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin, two of the world’s most genetically blessed individuals, legs intertwined as they pose on a ’70s shag rug. There they are, holding hands in matching bathrobes between shots. These two literally refuse to lose touch with each other. And yet, somehow, it’s actually pretty damn cute.

For all their PDA, online and IRL, there’s still a sense of mystery to Dylan, the 26-year-old former child actor turned adult actor and mead entrepreneur, and Barbara, the 25-year-old model who has been one of the most in-demand faces in the world for nearly a decade, as a couple. There are still many specifics unanswered. Most essentially: How did they even meet? Well, as far as love stories go, it’s a modern classic: Boy meets girl at a party. Girl follows boy on Instagram. Boy slides into those DMs.

“He slid into my DMs,” Palvin confirms, situated on a couch somewhere in Staten Island, New York, where the pair have just wrapped their first photo shoot together. “She followed me, so I was like, I guess I’ll give her something. And I slid into her DMs,” Sprouse says. “I was like, ‘Hey, I don’t know if you’re in New York for very long, but we should hang out if you want to. Here’s my number.’ And she didn’t message me for six months.”