when we were young | adele clay and george were childhood friends, but george had to move away. and with distance, they drifted apart. years later, george inherits his grandparents' house in their old neighborhood, where he and clay used to play. what's peculiar was the box of letters there for george, all in clay's handwriting. " love letters, to what used to be you and i. " --- intentional lowercase :) cross-posted on ao3 ( 02/06/21 - 02/26/21 ) ( 03/09/21 ) ; edited wc: 16,452 words