Promises We Made Then

Promises We Made Then

They were inseparable since they could remember. Three kids who grew up running the same streets and sharing the same secrets and dreaming the same dreams. They promised nothing would ever tear them apart. Those were the easy words spoken without fear and without knowing what the years would bring.

Then high school came and everything shifted. The quiet glances grew longer. The casual touches started to mean something more. And somewhere between shared lunches and late night walks she realized her heart was pulling in two different directions. Both of them were her oldest friends. Both knew every part of her. But she could not choose both. The promises they made as children did not account for this. They did not prepare her to break one heart or to lose the friendship that had always been her whole world. Now she stands between the two people who know her best and she has to decide which promise she will keep and which one will change everything forever.