Senior Year: When My Childhood Sweetheart Fell for the Bad Boy

He took her ditching class, taught her to smoke and drink, and sent her grades plummeting.

I couldn't bear to watch her spiral, so when her parents asked, I told them everything.

From then on, she was kept under strict watch by her folks.

The night she and the school rebel planned to elope, her parents stopped her. She couldn't make it to him. And that same night, he tragically died in a freak accident.

Years later, set up by our families, we got married and had a child.

During a terrible car crash, to protect her and our daughter, I pushed them away and took the brunt of the impact.