The Night We Chose Each Other

Six years together since high school, and still the word sweetheart feels too small. A girl of twenty takes stock of first love and the night it might change.

Sweetheart

Six years is a long time when you are only twenty.

It is long enough for school uniforms to become old photographs, for awkward hallway conversations to turn into late-night phone calls, and for two teenagers who once worried about exams to begin wondering what kind of adults they might become.

For six years, he had been beside me through all of it.

He was my high school sweetheart, although the phrase always sounded too small for what we had. It made our relationship sound like a sweet memory tucked into the back of a yearbook. But he was not a memory. He was present in the ordinary parts of my life: the person who waited when I needed time, listened when I struggled to explain myself, and never made kindness feel like something I had to earn.

He was also my first everything.

My first real crush. My first boyfriend. The first person whose name could make me smile at my phone for no sensible reason. The first person who knew when I was upset even when I insisted that I was fine.

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What is The Night We Chose Each Other about?

Six years together since high school, and still the word sweetheart feels too small. A girl of twenty takes stock of first love and the night it might change.

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Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.