Students who fell in love after meeting playing Call of Duty on the Xbox to get married
Gamer Gary Davy began talking to now-fiance Kayleigh Hopgood after sending her a message jokingly asking that she stopped killing him in the video game
A YOUNG couple are set to wed after meeting playing Call of Duty online.
Gary Davy got chatting to Kayleigh Hopgood because she kept shooting him on the Xbox game.
The gamers, both 22, then talked for three months before swapping numbers and meeting face-to-face.
Their romance blossomed and the couple from Canterbury, Kent are now getting married next year.
She said: "I was playing a team deathmatch on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and after a few games I got a message from a guy called 'It's Gazza'.
“It simply read 'Please don't kill me' with a smiley face on the end.
"He continued to message me. I decided to invite him to an online party, but he didn't talk.
"I started a private chat with him and that's when I found out he was suffering with a bit of depression.
"He didn't really have anyone to talk to and I guess he found he could trust in me."
Kayleigh lived in Grays, Essex and Gary was in Peterborough, Cambs at the time so they used to meet up at weekends.
Gary said: "Kayleigh says she hated the idea of online dating and also never thought that she'd end up with someone she met on the internet.
"I saw the same username kept on killing me, so I jokingly sent the message to continue the light-hearted nature of the previous games.
"I never expected for a second that I would be spending the rest of my life with someone I met while gaming.
"Now it is happening, I wouldn't change any of it for the world."
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The students are planning to tie the knot next August.
Kayleigh added: "I always imagined meeting my husband through work or friends.
“But I guess you never who you're going to meet over Xbox, and in my case it was my future husband.
"I couldn't be happier with the man I'll be marrying. He will do anything to make me happy and I'd do the same for him.”