All Forgotten As Fireworks Bloom

For seven years Sienna has loved Ross, and every time he chooses Gemma, his first love, over her, a memory of that love disappears. When he spends Gemma's birthday away from her, Sienna forgets their first handhold; when he puts Gemma's name on the proposal she wrote, she forgets the rain of his confession. Now, on their seventh anniversary, Ross rents the riverfront for a fireworks display and calls to hurry her along. Sienna stares at the unfamiliar number and asks who he is. She hangs up and blocks him, though a blank photo album on her desk still holds seven numbered pages.

Ross waits outside her office with a silver gift box, a fireworks pendant chosen because Gemma admired it. Gemma steps from his car wearing a dusty blue scarf embroidered with a crooked S, the scarf Sienna once stitched. In the conference room the next morning, Gemma presents the proposal that was Sienna's, and Ross tells Sienna to yield the credit. When Sienna refuses, he leaves with Gemma, and the album falls open to a note in his handwriting: Year One, Ross will always choose Sienna first.