Before We Knew Novels & Stories

A war none of us were prepared for. And I knew, deep down, that when the sun rose, none of us would be the same.

A silence full of everything we didn’t know how to say. But one thing became clear in that moment: We were both here for the truth. And the truth was darker than either of us imagined.

Six days until everything changed. We were still learning. Still bruised. Still afraid. But we were no longer unprepared. And for the first time since this all began, I started to believe we might actually survive it.

Not hidden. Not doubted. Not questioned. Together. This war wasn’t just coming. It had already started. And we were already in motion.

And in that instant—without a word—we all knew. She wasn’t a coincidence. She was fate. The one. The mate our mother spoke. "Did she know what would happen when she filled out the forms for us?" The miracle we stopped believing in, but we always wanted. The miracle we will never let go.

“I miss you too.” We didn’t need to say much to understand. Then our mouths collided, but this time, I knew there would be no turning back.

He remarked, "Lionel, why are you hugging Ingrid? Wait… Hold on. Channing, you betrayed us, too?" Britney and I looked at each other and smiled. Our fingers were tightly intertwined as we leaned against one another. This was the first sunrise we had ever watched together. In this life, we would watch every sunrise together. We would walk the roads we never got to walk in our last life and travel across the world. We would make up for every regret. And this graduation trip was only the beginning.

"That's before all of this, before the company was what it is now. You must have been, what, still building it. She would have known you when you were nobody." "I was never nobody." "You know what I mean." I turned to look at him. "She knew you before me. She knew you before any of this. Sometimes I feel like I walked into the middle of a movie, Caspian. Like everyone in that room tonight had thirty years of you and I have a few months." And it landed, then, sitting on the edge of that bed. Really landed, for the first time. I knew almost nothing about him.

Neither of us spoke, neither of us needed to because in that single moment. We both understood. Nothing between us would ever be the same again.

he begs. I kept on crying not knowing what to say, "I don't know what to tell you,I tried so hard to get over you but anyone I went out always had a love Before Me. I always compared them to you,I wanted to hate you but I couldn't" I cried,he pulls me to him and hugged me "This it is going to be different,you'll be the only one,there is no one before or after you. Zara is my past and that is where she will remain"he assures me.