When Amelia Grace Lawson returns to her small hometown after seven years in the city, she brings more baggage than she's willing to admit. The wedding everyone's waiting for will never happen, and the future she built has already burned down. Schlatt has carved out a place in the town she left behind. He's steady, sharp-tongued, and impossible to ignore. Their paths collide on back roads and fencelines, where words cut as deep as silence. Life in the country was never simple, and it hasn't gotten any easier. Fences need mending, gossip travels faster than the wind, and not everyone is quick to forget who left and why. But standing still long enough to face it all might be the hardest work of all. ----- Author's Note: This is a fictional story featuring Jschlatt as a character. It's a non-celebrity AU-he's not a YouTuber in this universe.