ROMANCE,SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE

Seraphine Evergreen had never forgotten the summer of their senior year. The way Caleb Blackwood's laugh echoed through the empty school hallways. The warmth of his hand brushing hers under the bleachers. They were inseparable, inseparable until the night the world changed for them.

Caleb had been called to serve - Marines. His father, a stern retired officer, had wanted this ever since Caleb was in college. And suddenly, without warning, without a note, without a goodbye, he left.

Seraphine stood on the porch, clutching a letter that never came, staring at the darkening sky. The boy she had loved, the boy she had promised forever to, was gone. And the silence he left behind was deafening.