StayQuiteStayAlive
She thought she had it all figured out-the boy she fell for in high school, the love that carried her through a decade, the certainty that he was her forever. Together they built dreams, shared secrets, and carved ten years of their lives into each other's hearts. But forever can end, and one day he realized what she refused to believe: she wasn't the one he was waiting for. Like the cruel truth of the taxi cab theory, she was the passenger who helped him grow, only for him to be ready when someone else hailed him down.
Shattered, she never expected the presence of someone else-a man she had known for years yet never truly known. He was inconsistent, infuriating, self-assured to the point of arrogance, the complete opposite of the boy she once loved. To her, he was little more than a mystery lingering at the edges of her life, like a stranger who somehow felt familiar.
But sometimes love doesn't come from the one you've held onto the longest. Sometimes it blooms from the one who was quietly there all along-the one you least expected to stay, but the one who turns out to be your endgame.