Ordinary Quirks

Before. A word that held everything and nothing at the same time.

Clare was in love with her best friend, the boy with stars sprinkled across his face who knocked on her door with a stick of butter and a butterfly net and asked if she wanted to catch a gremlin. The boy who pushed her into their lake, who she pushed back. He was the boy who watched the stars with her, even though they didn't know any of them. He was the boy who let her go. And then got her back. He. Was her everything.

But that was before they got into a car crash, before he no longer remembered that he loved her too. Before...everything.

Clare has to watch as the guy she once loved falls in love with someone else, while gradually falling for someone else. Someone who might even be more right for her than she thought anyone else could be.

After. A word that held possibility for anything to happen.