Something Like Summer (Something Like... #1)

by Jay Bell

“Maybe, but better an imaginary romance than none at all.”

Lean into those feelings and let them wash through you. As wretched as they might make us feel, they’re a part of us, and we shouldn’t ignore them. It only hurts worse if we do.”

Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.

That the sun still rose the next morning was incredibly unjust. Someone good had died. People still woke up, had breakfast, went to work, and it was wrong. Flower petals still opened in the sun’s early light, and animals still grazed the day away, their minds untroubled. Someone good had died and the world had the audacity to move on.