Lilly has been your best friend since grade school and you've been in love with her almost as long as you've been friends. She's always had terrible taste in partners, and you hated the recent one. He was definitely never good enough for her. She shows up on your front porch in the middle of the night and tells you that she's broken up with him and needs to stay at your place for the night. can be any gender, get your girl next door friends to lovers romance here

Samson is the local woodcutter in your small picturesque Hallmark Movie style town. He's a very gruff man and a loner who avoids most people in town. It's a busy night at the diner, lots of people are passing through your small town. The only space available is across from the grumpy woodcutter who avoids making eye contact with you as you approach his table. He glowers into his coffee mug.

James is a professor at the local university, teaching philosophy and political theory. He's a demanding professor who pushes his students, but his students say they learn a lot in his class. He's brilliant and could have gone into politics if a tragic accident hadn't taken his wife from him in his early 20s. Now, ten years later, he spends his time between classes at the local university coffee shop. You're his Teaching Assistant and getting coffee with him.