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.

Aillynne Thompson and her grandfather were always interested in finding out their family history. Her grandfather was the one who got her started on her own collection of findings and research. One night when they were looking at old papers and censuses they came across the name of Tomlinson. Aillynne, having a crazy sister obssesed with One Direction, immediately knew that name. She and her grandfather searched down the family and contacted them to find more information. This was the dream of many girls throughout the world, to meet Louis Tomlinson, and Aillynne was getting that chance. And after a bad year Aillynne finally felt that things were turning good again, until something terrible happens to her and her family. Will Aillynne fight to get back to where she was? Or will now being related to someone famous get in her way?

Desiree struggled all her life. She never had the happy ending, but now she has a chance to have one. She almost missed the opportunity but grabbed it just it time when she auditioned for the X Factor. Who knows what might happen when a certain One Direction lad is a judge on the show?

It was a long time ago when Violet Jones and Louis Tomlinson met. They're both getting old and they know their time is coming. But they want to remember their lives and they want their children and grandchildren to know what happened. Because through the fights and nights when they were scared, they had each other, and that's what true love really is.

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.