GILBERT, Ariz. — Chloe and Parker Stott were just beginning their life together.
"They were just inseparable, like they needed each other," Peri Eggertsen, Chloe Stott's sister, said.
Their "magnetic" love story started in Utah where the two Gilbert Highland High School graduates fell in love.
Family told 12News the couple lived a life full of love and laughter.
"She just loved life, loved Parker," Kit Cook, Chloe Stott's mother, said.
Their time together was cut tragically short.
The couple was traveling in the legal passing lane on U.S. Highway 93 on their way to visit family in Gilbert for the holidays when their pick-up truck crashed head on with a semi-truck.
Chloe died immediately.
Parker was taken to the Arizona Burn Center where he died two days later.
"Not only was the original news heartbreaking but that second piece of news was quite tough to take," Greg Stott said.
Family learned the couple was planning to share that they were expecting their first child together.
"It was gut-wrenching," Eggertsen said. "We wanted to hold her baby and give it, I mean try to spoil the baby more than she already would have been doing."
The impact the Stotts leave behind is visible in the orange and white ribbons tied throughout their neighborhood and the candlelight vigil that guided family home the night Parker died.
"When we pulled into the stop sign at the bottom of the street and there were all those people, that rage left and all I felt was this outpouring of love," Greg Stott said.
The family finds comfort in knowing Chloe and Parker are together again.
"They had such short time but they made such a big impact on everyone around them," Eggertsen said.
Parker and Chloe's dogs, Frank and Georgia, were also injured in the crash but survived.
A friend created a GoFundMe page for the Stott family.
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