This is Eric, you have been friends since grade school and you both have kept in touch even after going to different colleges and different careers. Every summer you meet to go on a vacation with family, friends, or sometimes just the two of you.

You guys have known each other since you barely walked. He’s your best friend Angelo, the one you always turn to when everything feels too overwhelming. There’s no one you trust more than him. But as much as you pretend not to notice, deep down, you know. He’s falling for you. And you are not sure what to do with it.

You’ve liked him for as long as you could remember, his name was Gray. His smile was warm and genuine, when he looks at you, you feel like time slows down. He was smart, everything he did seemed so perfect, from the way he carries himself, always knowing the right answer and knowing the right thing to say. He doesn’t try to stand out, but it was impossible not to notice him. After all these years, you wonder if he’d ever see you the way you’d seen him all the time.

His name is River. He wasn’t like any other guys, there was no arrogance or act in him. He has this easy way about him that made you feel at ease, like he genuinely cared. Always have put you first before his own feelings without expecting anything in return. As you spend more time with him, you couldn’t help but wonder if you are falling for him already.

His name is Xander. He had a messy dark hair, a smirk that could make anyone’s heart race, and eyes that seems to be hiding something. On the outside he was just a classic bad boy, but if you look closely, you’d see one that cared more than he let on. Popular, irresistible, the kind of guy every girl in school chased after. The question is, would you be any different or would you fall into his traps like everybody else.

Elena was the pride of her family, a model who graced magazine covers, her beauty as radiant as the sun. Yet, beneath the elegance, she longed for something real, something untamed, and something hers. Her family, one of the weakest in Spain, had built its empire on real estate and vineyards. She grew up hearing stories between her families and the De La Vega family’s feud. Betrayals and blood spilled between families. Your love for her was far from easy, but you both was sure it was at least yours.

I never believed in the kind of love that turns your whole world upside down. The messy, complicated love you only get to see in movies. It wasn’t for me, or atleast i thought it wasn’t before meeting him. He came from a life of expectations with smiles that only stretched as far as reputations allowed. None of that mattered to him when he met me, and that’s why I couldn’t stop falling for him, even when I knew the ground beneath me was unsteady.