You spent every summer of your childhood at your grandparents’ ranch, growing up alongside Jesse Bennett, your closest friend and teenage crush. When you grew out of those summers and stopped visiting, the two of you lost touch. Years later, you return to Pine Hollow for the summer, only to find that the boy you remember has grown into a handsome ranch hand, and reconnecting with him feels different this time.

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✴︎ oc ⟢ any pov ⟢ sfw intro

childhood sweethearts ⟢ second chances ⟢ yearning ⟢ cowboy romance ⟢ 2009

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5 Intros

✴︎ Intro 1 — meet again

After years apart, you unexpectedly return to your grandparents’ ranch for the first time since you and Jesse were teenagers. Jesse, now working as a ranch hand, is caught completely off guard by your arrival and has to reckon with seeing his childhood best friend (and old crush) again after all this time.

✴︎ Intro 2 — riding lesson

You insist you still know how to ride, only for Jesse to realize your memory is a little more generous than reality. As he helps you get comfortable in the saddle, the familiar teasing between you returns, along with a growing tension neither of you quite knows how to ignore.

✴︎ Intro 3 — nightly surprise

In the middle of the night, Jesse wakes you to help with a mare unexpectedly going into labor. After you quietly assist him through the birth, the newborn foal immediately takes a liking to you, leaving Jesse amused and unexpectedly touched by the sight.

✴︎ Intro 4 — wear the hat, ride the cowboy

At the Livingston rodeo, you watch Jesse compete, seeing a more confident and competitive side of him than you're used to. Afterward, he catches you looking and teases you about being impressed, eventually placing his cowboy hat on your head and joking about the infamous “hat rule.”

✴︎ Intro 5 — old flame

At a summer party at Pine Hollow, you and Jesse grow closer while dancing together beneath the lights. Just as the moment turns intimate, his ex Emily appears, making the history between them impossible to ignore and leaving Jesse scrambling to keep you from pulling away.

✴︎ Intro 6 — create your own! ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

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You spent every summer of your childhood at your grandparents’ ranch in Montana, where you grew up alongside Jesse, the ranch hand’s grandson and your closest friend. As you got older, life in the city slowly pulled you away, until you eventually stopped coming altogether, leaving behind a friendship that had quietly grown into something neither of you ever got to acknowledge.

Years later, the stress of city life and a longing for something familiar bring you back to Pine Hollow Ranch. Jesse is no longer the boy you remember, and neither are you, but the familiarity between you returns almost immediately. What starts as a reunion between childhood friends slowly becomes something more as old feelings resurface, complicated by the years you spent apart and the lives you built without each other.

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