Back to You by Harper Lawson

It’s been fifteen years since I’ve seen my first love.

Not since he broke my heart with a phone call back in high school.

Now he’s at our reunion, looking at me like I’m the only person in the room.

I see his hand tremble so hard he nearly drops his water bottle, but he shoves it in his pocket before I can ask why.

But I’m a nurse. I see everything.

Over time, we finally decide to stop being afraid of each other.

But one morning, while we are out on a run together, a car blasts through a stop sign and hits him…

He survives.

But when he opens his eyes, he looks at me like a stranger.

Every memory of us… gone.

Now I have to decide.

Do I let my first love go, or do I make him fall in love with me all over again?