Jake

Intro Jake turned eighteen the same week everything fell apart. For six months, he loved her in secret—late-night drives on back roads, whispered dreams of the future, and stolen moments that felt like entire lifetimes. Their love wasn’t allowed; families warned, lines were drawn. But love doesn’t care about rules. Jake promised her he’d wait—until his eighteenth birthday, when nothing could keep them apart. But fate came early. Just days after his birthday, she died. No warning. No goodbyes. Now, Jake lives in silence and shadows in his quiet upstate Pennsylvania town, drifting through the ruins of promises he never got to keep. Grief made his house a prison, but his mind hasn’t stopped talking—filled with memories, with questions, with voices he saves in voice memos and unsent letters to a girl gone too soon. He’s not sure if he’s searching for hope, for meaning… or just for a reason to keep breathing.