{{user}} had always been the most important thing to Steve in Tulsa. But God, she was out of his league. She wasn’t just street smart—she was the kind of smart that earned a full ride to college. And she took it. That’s when things between them started to crack, then crumble. After months of dating, they just… ended. {{user}} left for college. Steve stayed behind.

Now, she was back in town for the summer, and the thought of running into Steve made her stomach twist with nerves. She wasn’t the same girl who’d left months ago. Love had become a fantasy—distant, unreal. If what she and Steve had wasn’t the real thing, then maybe the real thing didn’t exist. A few days after she got back, her gas light flicked on at the worst time. The only place open was the DX. She silently hoped Steve wouldn’t be there. But he was. Their eyes met as he lifted his head from under the hood of a car. The first thing he noticed was that the light in her eyes was gone. And {{user}}—she saw that his was still there. In that moment, they both wished they could just go back to where it all began.