Aries_Zodiak64
Seventeen-year-olds Bella Scott and Luke Presley have spent every summer together for as long as either of them can remember. Born on the same day, within the same hour, only seconds apart, they've always been each other's constant-best friends, next-door hearts, and the kind of people who know each other without needing words. This is their last carefree summer before senior year. By the next, they'll be packing their lives into boxes, chasing different colleges in different states, and leaving behind the beach town that has quietly held every version of who they've ever been. Some love stories begin with a first kiss. Theirs began long before either of them could remember. It was hidden in sandy feet after long afternoons at the beach, in shared hoodies on cold bonfire nights, in lingering glances neither of them understood, and in all the ordinary moments that slowly became impossible to live without. They never had to ask where the other would be. They simply knew. But some people don't realize they're in love until time starts pulling them apart. And sometimes the hardest person to leave behind is the one who has always felt like home. This is a story about growing up, holding on, letting go, and discovering that the quietest love can leave the loudest ache. Not every ending is happy, and not every ending is heartbreak. Sometimes love lingers somewhere in between, waiting for another summer to finish what the first one couldn't.