Love Blooms Under the Cherry Tree

Summary

When it was time to submit our college applications.

My childhood best friend insisted I apply to the exact same local university as him.

I believed him. I packed my bags, my heart brimming with absolute joy, just waiting for orientation day.

That was until I accidentally overheard him joking around with his buddies.

"You are a savage, man. Tricking Ashley into staying at Northwestern while you go off to USC. Halfway across the country. It's going to be pretty damn hard for her to cling to you from that distance."