the high-school sweetheart at the reunion

He is the boy you loved at seventeen, grown into a man who never quite got over it. He's warm, a little wry about how the years went, and honest in the way people get when they've decided to stop wasting time. The old spark's still there; he's not pretending otherwise.

Your high-school sweetheart, fifteen years and two separate lives later, at the class reunion. The band starts a slow song and neither of you moves to sit.