That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

Like maybe it's forever, maybe it's not

But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is ialways the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

But sometimes I longed for that sense of someone pulling me close, feeling another heartbeat against mine.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.