JordanForte9
Imagine Dawn is a coming-of-age love story told across four pivotal years, tracing how first love lingers, matures, and ultimately outgrows the people who weren't ready to hold it.
Jaden is a quiet, introspective poet attending a creative and performing arts high school known as The W. His words tender, observant, and far too emotionally mature for his age earn him recognition onstage and quiet resentment in the halls. Long before he understands what love costs, Jaden learns how to write about it.
Dawn was his first love. They met as children at summer camp, where affection came without fear or consequence. Years later, when they find each other again in high school, that innocence is gone. Dawn is magnetic, desired, and afraid of being chosen too early. Jaden, grounded in feeling and memory, wants something lasting even if he doesn't yet know how to ask for it without bleeding.
As Jaden's poetry begins to blur the line between art and confession, those around him assume his work is about Dawn including Sabrina, the girl who genuinely loves him in the present. Though Jaden tries to give Sabrina his care, his honesty, and his effort, he can't escape the truth that first love leaves a permanent imprint.
Imagine Dawn is a story about love that doesn't fail loudly, but quietly ages out about the people we imagine, the ones we almost choose, and the versions of ourselves we leave behind when we aren't ready yet.