Before You

<p><em style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Every single moment before you came into my life pales in comparison after meeting you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)><em>JJ Walker</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>I've spent nearly two and a half years simmering in regret because I allowed Marley to leave that night without getting her last name after falling hopelessly in love with her in the countryside of France. I look for her face in every crowd hoping for another chance with the girl of my dreams but for now the letters I've written her are a window to my fracturing soul.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)><em>Marley Benson</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>I'm the first to admit I struggle trusting others.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Being the heiress set to inherit the billion dollar company my father runs my entire future has been planned from the moment I was born. I've already broken the plan once by transferring from an Ivy League University to escape the pressures of my last name to attend Beaumont University on the other side of the country. I can't run forever but I can avoid my fate a little longer.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>The only thing I didn't plan for was to run into JJ the boy with eyes the color of spring as my boyfriend Trent introduces me to his roommates.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Suddenly everything I thought I knew no longer makes sense.</span></p>