The Start of Me and You (Start of Me and You #1)

by Emery Lord

“It’s just that everything I thought I knew seems different. It’s like, when my parents divorced, it was a period. Not an ellipsis.” Morgan shook her head after a moment. “I don’t follow.” “It wasn’t ‘Divorced, dot-dot-dot,’ ” I said. “It was ‘Divorced, period.’ That’s what divorce is. The ending punctuation.” “Maybe it’s a new sentence,” Tessa suggested. “A new story.” “Or maybe it was a semicolon before,” Morgan said.

But Max was the first bite of grilled cheese on a snowy day, the easy fit of my favorite jeans, that one old song that made it onto every playlist. Peanut-butter Girl Scout cookies instead of an ornate cake. Not glamorous or idealized or complicated. Just