mia and i had been together for more than two years , and yes , it was a high-school romance , but it was still the kind of romance where i thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever , the kind that , had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had i not been in a band on the rise-or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this-i was pretty sure it would 've been .