Our Secret Place Update

Firstly, ta da! I love the cover I made for this; it's so suitable. I made it medium instead of small. Covers are one of those things I want to gloat over when I make them nicely. 

Secondly, to those who knew about Our Secret Lane, this is that story. 

Why did I change it? 

To begin with, the biggest problem I encountered was the reason for Mia (the main character) being upset over Dylan (the guy) and showing some lane to a group of his friends.

Thing is, it's public property. It's weird to make a whole length of a lakeside lane a secret place. (Reading what I just wrote, it sounds confusing. At least that's not important!) And how do you get offended by a person bringing another person to a lane? It lacked some sense of reason. If I went ahead and made Mia get mad over it, then she'd appear cuckoo.

And so, the change.

In OSP (Our Secret Place), the place is a meadow with a cut tree trunk in the center of the meadow. The trunk was cut so that it kind of like forms a heart. You can make a promise to never bring anyone else there, right? (Kids made the promise, so sorry for the corniness.)
I would have stubbornly stuck by the lane if it wasn't for browsing pictures. Which was all thanks to Boredom.

And now, for the summary:

He's the guy from my childhood. The guy who's my best friend, who I spent every birthday with, the guy in almost every memory I cherish.

But then, people grow up and change. Sometimes for the worse.

I remember the day we came to that beautiful meadow with the special cut tree trunk. We were still so young. I remember his promise that it would be ours, our little secret. It would be our hangout, our meeting place . . . we were supposed to bring no one else there.

Promises were meant to be broken. That's what he did.

So tell me, what do you think?
~S.G.C.~