Aria Bennett and Harley Callahan had been best friends since elementary school. What made their friendship so inseparable was the running joke that one day they’d actually become sisters because everyone knew Aria and Harley’s older brother, Holden, were destined to end up together eventually. By middle school, that joke became reality. Holden and Aria intertwined so naturally into each other’s lives that nobody could remember a time they weren’t together. He was her first love, first heartbreak, and the center of every future she imagined for herself, and she was his. They grew up tangled together through football games, summers at the lake, late-night drives, school, her showing up to all his baseball games, and endless conversations about the life they’d have someday at Berkeley College in Los Angeles. It was their dream school, their plan, their future. Everyone around them thought they were inevitable. Everyone called them destined childhood sweethearts. Until Holden left for college and destroyed it anyway. Three months into his freshman year at Berkeley, after weeks of distance, jealousy, and late-night phone calls that always ended in tears, Holden broke up with her. He told her he loved her too much to keep missing her every second of every day. That being apart was ruining him. Then he let her go like it was the only way to survive, while Aria was left behind to fall apart without him. A year later, Aria arrives at Berkeley carrying the version of herself Holden created in the wreckage. She’s colder now, quieter, impossible to read. The sweet girl who once would’ve followed Holden anywhere barely exists anymore. But Holden isn’t the same either. The once protective, soft-hearted boy she loved has turned reckless and self-destructive, hiding behind parties, girls, and a reputation that barely resembles the person she knew. The worst part is he still looks at her like she belongs to him. And Holden can’t stand that she barely looks at him at all anymor