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They were supposed to stay together forever.
Everybody knew it.
Ola and Jide had been inseparable since they were fourteen years old - the ambitious future president and the quiet basketball star who loved her like breathing. For years, their lives fit together perfectly: Ivy League dreams, late-night study dates, stolen kisses, and a future planned down to the smallest detail.
Until senior year ruined everything.
Because suddenly Jide is getting attention from scouts across the country. Suddenly Duke wants him. Suddenly everybody is asking questions neither of them knows how to answer.
And the worst part?
Love was never the problem.
As they leave for two completely different worlds - Harvard and Duke - Ola and Jide are forced to confront the terrifying possibility that sometimes loving someone deeply is not enough to make your futures survive each other.
What follows is years of heartbreak, ambition, missed chances, terrible timing, messy college experiences, emotional damage, almost-moving-on, and the kind of love that refuses to die quietly.
A story about first love, becoming, Black ambition, growing apart before growing up, and finding out whether soulmates can survive the people they have to become first.
Or if the world gets them before they can get back to each other.