Silent Night, Second Chance: A Sweet Romance Holiday Short Story

By Avianne Ash

I came home for one night-
So how did I end up kissing my first love behind his music shop
twenty years after he broke my heart?

Jack Sullivan was the boy who let me walk away.
Now he's the man who makes me want to forget why I ever did.

I told myself I was only back in Willowbrook for the reunion, not for him.
But one look across the shop, one smile I shouldn't have remembered,
and my heart was already twenty years deep.

He still smells like music and mistakes I can't stop replaying.
Still plays the song we wrote the summer everything fell apart.
And when he presses play on that old cassette,
every "what if" crashes through me at once.

One kiss, one week, one impossible second chance.
We keep pretending we can walk away again, but we both know we won't.

Because second chances only work if you fight for them.
Twenty years ago, I waited for him to ask me to stay. He waited for me to speak up.

We both stayed silent.
We both walked away.

Now I have six days-and the worst truth of all: we were both wrong.
Could we survive being right this time?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G1SXM7DF
• ISBN13: 9798274013710
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"