If he was with her from the beginning, would she still meet him?
If he didn't fall in love with her later, would they still have that much bond?
Maybe all this is fate. You will always meet someone at a certain time and place, and some stories will happen.
And the reason why a story becomes a story is because of what happened at that specific time. If time passes, the story will no longer be that story.
These stories settle into ordinary years in a flashy world.