Saltwater Memories - Will Smith

Every summer until they were fifteen, the Cape was theirs.

She wore Rangers jerseys over her swimsuits. He swore allegiance to Boston with sand between his toes. Their families' neighboring beach houses in Cape Cod turned childhood rivalries into shared secrets, midnight swims, and the kind of friendship that always felt like more-though neither of them ever admitted it.

But the summer they were fifteen, her family sold their house on the Cape. No warning. No last night on the dock. Just one final look back-and years of silence.

Now, she's twenty-one, tagging along to a San Jose Sharks season ticket holder event with a friend, when she locks eyes with someone she thought she'd never see again: Will Smith. Taller now, sharper jaw, wearing the teal of the Sharks-but still the boy who once made every summer feel like magic.

He's on the rise in the NHL. She's trying to figure out what comes next. And suddenly, every sun-drenched memory and unfinished feeling crashes back into view.

Because the thing about first love? It doesn't always stay in the past.