Joan felt a wave of nostalgia as she looked through her old school album, remembering her teenage dreams and her first crush, Chad. He had been the boy she once imagined a future with, but just before graduation, he suddenly shut her out, leaving her heartbroken and unsure of what went wrong. Even twenty years later, as she prepared for her school reunion, the memory of him lingered, stirring both excitement and unease.

At the reunion, Joan enjoyed reconnecting with classmates, but the moment she spotted Chad across the room, her heart skipped a beat. She longed for answers about why he had vanished from her life. Later that evening, when the two found themselves outside together, the truth began to unfold. Chad explained that years ago, he had written her a heartfelt letter asking her out, but when she never appeared, he assumed she wasn’t interested.

Joan was stunned—she had never seen such a letter. The missing piece appeared when her best friend, Lora, admitted with guilt that she had intercepted it out of jealousy. That single decision had kept Joan and Chad apart, changing the course of their lives and leaving years of confusion in its wake.

Although the betrayal hurt, Joan also felt an immense sense of relief. For the first time in decades, she finally understood what had happened. She and Chad shared a long, emotional conversation under the night sky, realizing how much had been lost but also how much remained possible. What Joan found wasn’t only closure, but a sense of hope—the future was still unwritten, and perhaps, a new chapter with Chad was waiting to begin.