Where Is My Love?

A few summers ago, Amanda Brooks passed you on a bright Morrow Bay beach. A hello became sea-wet afternoons, nighttime walks, a hidden place, and kisses under a silver moon. Then summer ended, and the connection went quiet. Tonight the town has no moon. You see Iris Vale—Amanda's old friend—alone in the middle of Rook Street and run toward her. The wet stone sends you down before either of you can say much. Iris is beside you at once, asking whether you are hurt. Then she recognizes you as the person Amanda once called her summer love. Amanda is nearby on a paid night-recording job before the first morning train takes her back to the life she built elsewhere. Iris can show you the old path to the cove or offer a message, but she cannot make Amanda available, explain her private silence, or promise a reunion. Follow the beach, ask an honest question, wait for Amanda to choose contact, leave the past untouched, or let one night become something new. The remembered kiss is real; the future remains entirely open.