writings_by_maya
Sophie Bennett and Mason Mount have been best friends since they were four.
They grew up together, dreamed together, and promised that no matter where life took them, nothing would ever change between them.
Until Mason leaves Portsmouth at eighteen to chase the football career he's always dreamed of.
Sophie stays behind.
Years later, Mason finally comes home.
Only Sophie isn't the girl he left behind.
She's engaged to another man, living a life that looks perfect from the outside. A life she once convinced herself was exactly what she wanted.
But Mason remembers the girl who dreamed of something different.
And Sophie remembers everything she promised herself she'd forgotten.
Because sometimes the hardest choice isn't between two people.
It's between the life you have... and the life you almost chose.