evermore
A full year has passed since the summer it all happened. Since the moment he asked her to be his girlfriend at her doorstep, high school sweethearts James Carlton and Betty Smithson have been going strong. Now, it is late summer of 2012. Past students of San Jose High will scatter to various places around the world, including Betty, who has been accepted into New York University in the city of Manhattan, two thousand-nine hundred and fifty-three miles away. Hesitant to move on but eager to see where her future takes her, Betty packs up her past and discovers New York, the Concrete Jungle, The City That Never Sleeps.