The Now or Never Moment: Omnibus

By the time she realizes she loves him, he’s already gone. 
 
Shelby and Tanner have been inseparable ever since freshman year when she intervened to save him from a bully’s beating. Fast forward four intense years--Shelby is leaving for college. Without Tanner. Three days before she’s set to move, he hands her a thick envelope with explicit instructions: 
 
In no way shape or form is she to open the envelope until she is perfectly settled in at school. She is not to even think of it until then. 
 
No one has seen Tanner since that moment. 
 
She opens the envelope to find a letter of epic proportions inside that spans their years in high school together. When she reads it out loud to almost her entire dorm, Shelby relives the good and all of the bad, and together they learn details that Tanner held back, the things he never told her. How much he really loves her. 
 
Sometimes, all it takes is walking in someone else’s shoes to realize what you’ve known all along. Sometimes, that realization comes too late.