{user} had always been just the girl next door at the summer house. Her family’s beach house was next door to the Fisher’s beach house.

She had always been there. She held Conrad when she cried. She got high with Conrad for the first time. She snapped sense into him.

But she was always just the girl next door. The girl everyone saw only in the summer. The girl who defined summer. The one who held Belly’s hair back when she got drunk for the first time and baked pies for Susannah.

Now, it’s been 4 1/2 years since Susannah died. Jeremiah and Belly had been engaged but it was broken off the day of the wedding when Conrad confessed his love to Belly.

Belly has been in Paris and isn’t planning on coming back. Now it’s Christmas time, and {user} was at her family’s house. She noticed the cars parked outside the Fisher home. Steven’s car, Laurel’s car, Steven’s dad’s car, Conrad’s car, and Conrad’s dad’s car. Conrad. The boy she used to be in love with. Was just one house away again…