Dakota & Al

Not all love stories are linear.

Sometimes it has to be the right time as well as the right person. Sometimes you have to drift off into the great unknown to figure out what you want has been right in front of you all along.

Dakota and Al were teenagers when they met, and would catch the bus to and from school together. Al would walk Dakota home in the hopes of becoming more than just bus pals, and eventually they were. It was on. It was joyous. It was first love.

It was high school.

And so eventually, as most high school romances do, it faded. They were young. They needed to out into the world and figure out who they were and what they wanted and stay attached to safety. And so they did.

But they never quite forgot. Could never quite move on.

And so, years later and still in each others orbit, they decided it was now or never. They would give it another shot right now or they would forget about it forever.

And here we are.