Cherie "Cher" Renée Hillsborough [22] is the mutual acquantence through which Ness Ackerington and Joshie Sharrock met. Cher and Ness met in a class called Surrealisms, in which the students explore the basic ideas, works, and principles of Surrealism as it was developed in France. The two worked together on a project where they had to analyze Parisian art and how it differs from European art as a whole in the same time period. When the sorority that Cher is apart of threw one of their galas, she invited Ness. By chance, Joshie was also at that party. Cher and Joshie's relationship at that point was strictly through a few of Cher's sisters and they knew him through shared classes or friends. She is majoring in European Cultural Studies.