weasleystwin
Dear reader, this is not an easy story. It does not have joy. No happy ending. At no point is this a love story, and it should not be idolized as one.
Jack Hughes is hockey's golden boy, America's sweetheart - and a grieving husband with three kids who want to know how he met their mother.
What begins as a nostalgic recounting of a childhood love story quickly darkens into something more complicated. Jack tells them about Eva: his best friend, his first kiss, the girl who followed him to Michigan, to Jersey, to the edge of everything. The girl he married. The woman he buried.
But interspersed with Jack's charming, curated memories are the pages of Eva's diary. And Eva's truth? Isn't quite the same. In her words are the fractures - the gaslighting, the loneliness, the love that never stopped taking.
He said we were soulmates. But when someone loves you like that, it can break you.