Before the summer vacation, Caitlin Knott and Miles Blige separated.
There were no betrayals, no arguments, and no one really did anything wrong.
It's just that she wants to confirm how much he cares, and the more he cares, the less he dares to get close.
She tried again and again, and he backed away again and again.
Until she asked: "If you don't want to stay, you can just say so."
He said it.
So they ended.
At the beginning of the new school year, they met each other again at Hogwarts.
"Long time no see, Blakey."
"Yeah."
"When you meet your ex, shouldn't you give him a hug?"
They all laughed, but no one mentioned the past.
From that day on, they reappeared in each other's lives.
She is still dazzling, and there is never a lack of people around her; he is still silent, but always appears when she needs him.
They are like friends, but not like friends.
Until one night, she finally asked about the ending.
He admitted for the first time that it wasn't that he didn't love her, but that he was afraid that he wasn't good enough.
But the truth doesn't fix everything immediately.
When she said, "Let's try again," he still replied:
"I don't know."
So she chose to retreat to her friend's position.
This time, she really could live without him.
And for the first time, he understood that "friends" were more difficult to bear than "exes."
Until the rainy night, he stopped running away.
He admitted for the first time that he still liked her.
They finally understood——
Starting over is not going back to the past, but choosing each other again.
Purpose: What this story really wants to write about is not about "the exes getting back together", but about how two people who love each other learn to love each other in the right way. Caitlin's problem is insecurity and temptation. She needs to be confirmed, so she will be deliberately jealous, deliberately provoke, deliberately approach and then back away. She seems to be in control of everything, but in fact what she fears most is that she is not the chosen one. Miles' problem is avoidance and self-denial. It's not that he has no feelings, but because he cares too much, he's afraid that he won't be the person Caitlin needs. So he chose to retreat and changed "I'm afraid I can't do it well" into "I'm not suitable for you." So the first time they broke up, it was: She kept asking "Will you stay?" He kept thinking, "Will I disappoint you if I stay?" And the second time they started over, it became: She learned not to use trials to confirm love. He learned not to run away even if he was afraid. So in the end, what Miles said was not "I will never let you leave again", but: "If I really don't know, I will say I don't know, but I will stay."