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Elena Carter was never the girl who fell fast until she met Asher Hayes, the loud, goofy freshman she noticed in the chaos of the school bus line. One exchanged number became late-night calls, inside jokes, shared playlists, and three and a half years of becoming each other's person. Best friends first, lovers second, always everything to each other.
But growing up changes people, even when they don't mean for it to.
As time passes, Asher approaches graduation, while Elena has already graduated from high school. The pressure of what comes next begins pulling them in different directions. Faith shifts. Fights replace laughter. Promises feel heavier than they used to. On a humid July night in the front seat of his Camaro, they say goodbye, even while holding on.
Now it's five months later. Elena turns twenty without him. She tries to move on, to paint, to breathe, to live a life not shaped by his absence. But every place she goes, every memory she touches, still echoes with who they were.
Told in a dual timeline before, where two kids fall in love through handwritten notes, high school, band competitions, art fairs, whispered confessions, and intimacy, and after, where silence, distance, and healing reshape who they are. Almost Everything is a story about what it means to love deeply, lose hard, and learn yourself all over again.
Because sometimes the person who felt like forever becomes a memory...
And sometimes memories find their way back.