Dylan and I had been best friends for as long as we could remember. We grew up side by side, inseparable, the kind of friendship everyone assumed would last forever. It was always us—until suddenly, it wasn’t.

Sophomore year changed everything. After Dylan starred in a movie that summer, his life shifted almost overnight. Popularity found him fast, and no matter how much we tried to hold onto what we had, the distance crept in anyway. New people, new expectations, a world I wasn’t part of anymore.

We drifted. Quietly. Painfully. And I blamed him for it.

And it stayed that way… until one evening, when he showed up on my doorstep, reminding us both of what we used to be.