[Never 01] • Never Letting Go

My world came crashing down around me the day dad died. Instead of being excited to start senior year, I’m devastated and uprooted.

Mom and I move back to my hometown, back to where our lives were happy, when dad was still with us. I’m excited as I can be, until I realize my former best friend, Noah, has moved on without me, and wants nothing to do with me anymore.

My world was destroyed the day Frankie left. I became a cold, distant, angry version of the boy she knew. Someone able to handle a life without the person I wanted most. Now she’s back, but I don’t know how to be the old me. It seems all I’m good at is pushing her away when all I want to do is hold her close.