Maddi's POV: Just kidding, there was a rocky beginning to our story that most of you are unaware of. While on the Road to Hana in Hawaii during our family vacation, my iPhone broke, and I wasn't able to contact the boy I had been texting.

When I returned from vacation, I got my new phone, and was finally able to pick up where I left off. I texted…and no answer. He thought I had “ghosted” him. And now he was ghosting me back for it.

The summer went by and I carried on. As junior year loomed, I had a thought of what it would be like if I ever saw him in the halls. The start of the school year was hectic as always, as everyone is trying to find their groove. Around September, I had decided, with the encouragement of my fellow leadership class, that I should shoot him another text. On the same exact day that I was going to text him, I saw him holding hands with the new girl. I immediately went numb, and not to be dramatic, I almost vomited from the almost-second-hand-embarassment I could have received if I had sent that text. But the worst thing was, she was in my class, sitting behind me, and I could hear her talking about him all period long.

There is nothing you want more than the thing you can’t have. So I yearned (again, dramatic - but I was a teenager so), and I posted pictures with cryptic captions, and I sat by where he had lunch, and I made sure to wear my cutest outfits. I soon found out that their relationship had run its (very short) course and I was in the clear. I waited a while, but eventually, it was my turn this time to “shoot my shot”. I texted him, and now, the rest was history.

Will's POV: Our beginning wasn't as smooth as people would think. It started off great, I would say, at least great from her. At that time in my life all I did was play basketball and video games, so I knew I couldn’t have been that interesting (not much has changed). So after a short while, Maddi had ghosted me, or so I had thought. I assumed it was because she always carried the conversation (and I was super dry, boring and uninteresting). I realized I had no chance at a girl like her.

A few months had gone by and there hadn't been any communication between us. Just as I had lost all hope, I received a message from Maddi! She was messaging me to see how I was doing, and she asked me why I had ghosted her. I said, "excuse me?"! Come to find out, her “ghosting” me was her phone breaking and her being unable to message me. And me “ghosting” her, was when my phone broke and was unable to message her. We had gone all this time without messaging each other because we thought we ghosted each other, but we had just ironically broken our phones at the worst possible times.

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