as promised! in the interest of clarity (since i ordered the flashbacks backwards), here is the eggs timeline in linear order (spoilers obvi):
you and Ryland (and Colt, and your brother Josh) meet when you are 7 and the boys are 8. your moms were close as kids, and both moved back home to raise families.
at your mom's (third) wedding, when you are 12 and Ryland is 13, you and Ryland dance, & make a deal that (if you don't have a boyfriend) he will take you to prom.
your senior year of high school, Ryland (19) calls you (18) and lets you know he's holding up the promise.
you go to prom. you get ready at their house, with their mom helping you (your mom & brother are out of town), and after prom, instead of meeting your classmates at a hotel suite, Ryland takes you to the beach. you talk. you tell him you always liked him. he kisses you
he then immediately walks back kissing you. when you're confused about why, he says he was just trying to do you a favor, since you'd said you'd never kissed anyone before. you go home in tears.
you see him in passing when you're both home from college, but you never really talk about it.
about a year after prom, he calls you, and he gives the worst non-apology known to man, wherein his reason for kissing you changes to "i was just going through a breakup, and you happened to be there." you hang up, pissed. at this point you have a boyfriend (Tyler) you met at college.
several years later, you (23) are engaged, and sitting alone at your mom's fifth wedding while Tyler, now your fiancé, wanders off for a smoke break. Ryland (24) asks you to dance. while you're dancing, you fight about the fact that your fiancé sucks. words are exchanged. you slap him.
you move to Connecticut with your fiancé and go to law school. you pass the bar, get married, spend several years in NYC married to an increasingly controlling husband.
at some point in the next several years, Ryland leaves academia and starts teaching middle school science, but you don't know about this because he is not on social media.
his mom also dies around this time, which you probably hear about secondhand, but at this point Tyler has more or less isolated you from most of your friends and family, so going across the country for the funeral is out of the question.
you get divorced around 30. you stay with your brother, who is also on the East Coast, for a little bit until you get back on your feet. eventually (maybe after a year or two, when the divorce is legally finalized), you (31/32) move back to San Francisco.
two months later, Ryland (33) moves back to his childhood home (which he & Colt inherited when their mom died) to teach at your old middle school. you run into each other at trivia night and agree to put the past behind you.
2 years pass, during which you become good friends again, and also during which you are basically never single at the same time, until Scrambled, where you (34) and Ryland (35) agree to fuck like bunnies solely for the purpose of getting you pregnant so that you can have a kid without having to date ever again.
