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Some people are meant to be forever. Some people are meant to teach you how to let go.
When Blair Terry was ten years old, Andrew was the boy who always challenged her, the boy who saved her a brownie, and the boy who held her hand when she was too embarrassed to let anyone see her cry.
He was her best friend.
Then life pulled them apart.
Four years later, Blair walks back into Bozeman High School expecting to find the same Andrew she left behind. The boy who called her Bear. The boy who never made her feel like she was too much or too different.
But the Andrew she finds is older, popular, and surrounded by people who only know him as the football star.
At first, Blair thinks it's just awkwardness. After all, four years is a long time. But as the days pass, she starts noticing the little things-the way Andrew changes around his friends, the way he hides the parts of himself he used to love, and the way the boy she remembers only appears when no one else is watching.
Because the hardest part about losing someone isn't when they leave.
It's when they're still standing right in front of you, but you don't recognize them anymore.
As Blair learns to build a life that doesn't revolve around waiting for Andrew to come back, she has to decide whether the boy she loved is someone she can find again-or someone she needs to let go.
A story about first love, growing up, and the painful space between who someone was and who they become.