It was funny, in a bittersweet sort of way. The very spot where Lauryn's longest-and only-relationship began was also where it had ended. Two years ago, Lauryn had made the heartbreaking decision to walk away from the person she loved most, convinced he deserved someone better than her.
Aiden was everything people admired: top grades, dazzling good looks, and the captain of the basketball team. Lauryn, on the other hand, was the quiet one. She was known for her stellar academics, her nose always buried in a book, and an air of mystery that drew Aiden in like a moth to a flame.
From the moment they met, Aiden was smitten. He knew, with an unshakable certainty, that Lauryn was the one for him. He asked her out again and again, charmingly persistent, until she finally said yes on a sunny spring afternoon. That spot became their sacred place-the backdrop for their first date, their first kiss, and the moment they officially became "them." It was also where their love story ended, leaving both their hearts fractured.
Two years later, life had a way of looping back. Now in their second year of university, Lauryn found herself assigned to tutor an unknown classmate. She never expected to look up and see him. Aiden.