One night, Leo asked Mia, “Does it ever exhaust you? Carrying all those storylines?”

Navigating Her Past: When Your GF Has "Many More" Relationships in Her Storyline

Mia took Leo’s hand. “Alex, I loved you. But you loved the drama more than me. That’s not a storyline I’m going to repeat.”

The childhood friend. The summer fling. This relationship is pure, but doomed. It ends because of circumstance (moving away, college), not malice. This establishes the character's emotional baseline.