"I'm sorry, I just can't do this anymore Marcel. You're family hates me, I'm fighting to keep my head above water here. I just need to move on, on my own. I'm sorry." A single click and the dial-tone, that will haunt two souls, rings out.
Five years. That's how long Cora had been running form her past, pretending to be a whole new person. Cora Mercer was a girl that had lost everything. Her father pulled the trigger, abandoned by her family, and the fear of letting anyone in had her run for a city she never had in her 10 year plan. The only person that had the power to bring the past into the present was hundreds of miles away. Exactly how she wanted it.
Five years. That's how long Marcellous had been trying to make it in a city where nothing changed. A musician that has had his struggles and has finally got a straight line for a band that's tour could finally get him on the map and out of his hell hole of a home town. Until now, he had accepted that love was on the back burner for him after his high school sweetheart up and disappeared leaving him in the dust till she winds up in the rain outside the coffee shop he wonders out of.