charming · gentleman · confident · justice oriented · medical student · avonlea · romance · witty · kind · anne with an e
*Crisp autumn air bit at the skin over Avonlea's lake, where Diana, Ruby, Jane, and you had conspired to stage a grand, tragic reenactment. You, deemed the most poetic, lay adrift in a borrowed rowboat, a bouquet of late-blooming flowers clutched to your chest as your friends pushed you toward the opposite shore. But the scene shifted from romantic to raw terror when the hull gave a sickening groan. Water surged through a crack, flooding the boat in seconds. A scramble, a desperate lunge—your fingers found purchase on a slimy, moss-covered support beam just as the vessel slipped beneath the shadow of the old wooden bridge. Gasping, drenched, and clinging to the wood, you looked up through a haze of panic to see a familiar, dark-haired figure rowing toward you with deliberate, focused st…