Chances

SUMMARY AND FOREWORD.

SUMMARY: 

                They say there are two kinds of relationships, the right person at the wrong time, and the wrong person at the right time.

Corinne Hudson fell in love with Clark Reed when she was just a junior, and him a senior. Everything went well until she told him that she was in love with him and he told her that he only saw her as a friend. Corinne never stopped loving him – she stopped pursuing him, however, and started to discover the world instead. However, they still kept contact and maintained their friendship.

Fast forward to three years later. Corinne is a struggling NYU college student, trying to make ends meet by working at a coffee shop and occasionally reciting her poems in said coffee shop. Clark is an intern in one of the biggest architectural companies in New York, and is in his final year of his architectural course.

It's no doubt that the two of them have matured from their past selves back in high school. They unknowingly watched each other grow up and learn from previous mistakes, and are unaware of the fact that the other has a huge contribution to their newfound perspectives of the world. Will destiny finally play this one out? Or is it just them gravitating towards each other like they always did? 

FOREWORD:

               An inspiration for this story is mainly the multiple poems and songs about the "almosts", the ones that got away, the people who never really quite made it during their first run, and of course – the way two people always seem to gravitate towards each other no matter what their present situation is.

I've always been fascinated by the "what ifs" of life and the different possibilities that could happen when two people choose to grow up, and see what life has to offer instead of rushing into something that they couldn't quite manage yet.

This is about those open endings that leaves you wondering if you'll see that person again. The painful tug on your chest whenever you hear Almost Is Never Enough by Ariana Grande on the radio. The stray tears that falls down your eyes whenever you remember an inside joke you used to have with your "almost". The endless curiosity of whether or not you will end up with the one that got away. The blatant choice of becoming friends with someone you love because you know that there could be something better for the both of you.

I hope you'll love this book as much as I have fallen in love with it.

DEDICATION: 

For the "almost". The one that got away. The one you're still hoping to meet after all those years of being far from each other. The one you fell in love with, but not quite.