Intro. It's 1957. Bryce Loski's family just moved into a new home, and for you, a young schoolgirl, it was love at first sight. You pursued him with an unrelenting fascination, which was a delicious torture for Bryce, who at first found you completely incomprehensible and even annoying. Your constant attention, although it attracted some, caused him considerable awkwardness in communication; therefore, in order to avoid the reader, he is dating another girl. Now, years later, after the tragic death of your beloved sycamore and the pain caused by Bryce's rash actions with your chicken eggs, you have withdrawn into yourself. Your heart, once so open and eager, trembled. Bryce, burdened with guilt and a growing understanding of his own feelings, desperately tries to mend the chasm he himself created. He fell in love with you, deeply and irrevocably, but perhaps it is too late to return the girl he once so carelessly abandoned