He leaves and doesn't call, doesn't text, doesn't anything. So much for I love you Lucy and always will. Ha. Why was I so stupid? Why did I believe that idiot? Oh yeah because that "idiot" happened to be my best friend. Niall Horan. But everything changes when I find out, he's coming back. Back to Mullingar. Back to his house next door. And worse back to me.

This is the sequel (continuation) of After. Hardin and Tessa's relationship will be tested in ways she never expected, but he knew of all along.

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

He could've opened it right then and there, making the whole process move quicker, but he slipped it into his jacket pocket, bringing his eyes back up to a normal level, moving forward. The paper was now his, it was no longer in a confused state of lost as well as found. It was simply found. Found by a boy who was blind to the hate in the world. Blind to love. A boy blind to loss.

I never imagined I'd be lying here, in this cold hard bed, waiting to die with so many regrets. I'm so selfish; I did this to help him, not me, and yet here I am wishing I could take it all back. Wishing that, just for a moment, I could be happy again. The kind of happy that he made me. He's the only one who can fix what's broken inside of me now...but there's just not enough time.

It's crazy how easily a life can be ripped away. There are so many ways Death can take someone. A disease... a fire... a bomb. Death is merciless. It grabs at what the living have too. Hope... friendship... love. Lacie's life is torn to pieces when a roadside bomb kills her husband in Afghanistan. With the death of her lover, Lacie is left alone and money-less. In a desperate state, she rents out the extra bedrooms in her country house with hopes of finding company and a little extra cash. She expected maybe a college student trying to find a cheap place to stay, or middle-aged families visiting loved ones to accept her offer. Instead, she discovers a rowdy boy band of five looking to take a break from their busy lives. With the help of one specific boy, Lacie slowly learns to live, and perhaps even love again.

"What if we're dead, Harry?"

She doesn't remember anything. Their first date, their first kiss, the first time he bought her flowers, their first fight. She doesn't even know who he is. She's forgotten something horrible, something no one wants to remind her of. So what exactly happens when everything disappears?