While most people in our small town stayed and went to the community college nearby, the Dexter brothers all left, each with a full-ride football scholarship to play at some hotshot university on the other side of the country.

I left too, but I only went one state away, far enough away to get out of the small town I grew up in.

But now, ten years later, I was back, feeling like the same shy, nervous, eighteen-year-old girl I was when I left.

All at once, it felt like everything and nothing had changed.

But Archer Dexter was back, dreams of becoming a famous NFL player crushed because of a career-ending injury.

He's now the town mechanic and tow-truck driver.

And when my car breaks down, he's my only hope of getting out of this wretched town that I should have never come back to.