Love Reclaimed: A Second Chance at Love

EllieI fell in love with my best friend when we were sixteen. At eighteen, we weren’t ready for a lifetime commitment. I went to nursing school, and Jason joined the Army. Saying goodbye to him the day he left nearly broke my heart. I never expected him to ghost me for the next ten years, practically.


Ten years later, I went to Crescent Lake for vacation, the same lake where we’d spent six summers together. When he called my name and I saw him, those years apart seemed to fall away.

I hardly dared to hope we could reclaim the love we lost.

Jason
I can’t even make excuses for the way I ghosted Ellie while I was in the Army. It was a different world than the one we shared those carefree summers at Crescent Lake. The memories we made there got me through some of the darkest times during two tours of combat duty. We did and saw stuff I could never tell her about.

When I went back to Crescent Lake to decompress after my discharge from the Army, I never expected her to be there. Somehow, I had to make things right because Ellie was the best thing that ever happened to me.