A Love Story. September 23, The date that will forever be burnt into Victoria Evans memory. Ten years later, the memory is still fresh, as she remembers the summer leading up the day her life took a turn, and she became a person withdrawn from others. Summer love. It happens. Girl meets boy, they fall in love, and think they'll be together forever. But life always intervene.

It was pity that first made Dannie speak to him. She had known Ryan since she was a kid, but he had always been the popular Golden Boy, and she had always been the tomboy that didn’t mind not having any friends. It was odd, she had thought, that all the popular kids who had once kissed the ground he walked on, didn’t so much spared him a glance anymore, and it was this that made her sit with him that one faithful day and begin something that would only end up causing her pain.