Childhood sweetheart? Perhaps she didn't know until many years later that she couldn't help but love him from the first moment.
Over the years, she taught him to grow, but her heart would never belong to him.
Unrequited love is bound to hurt, let alone a threesome. Only at the last moment did he realize that it was impossible from beginning to end.
The flowers were blooming that summer, as if youth had always been there. Same growth, different feelings, time once heard me say...