Love, Next Door

Ivy lived across from Tony when they were young. She was four years older and tutored him for three years. He confessed to her, she turned him down hard, and after that they stopped speaking altogether. More than a decade later they are neighbors again, doors facing each other. Ivy is widowed and raising her son alone, getting by on very little without complaining about it. Tony has done extremely well for himself, and he keeps that hidden, passing himself off as a man loafing around minding a friend's run-down bar. He tells himself he came back only to watch her fail and enjoy it. He watches her instead, and finds that after everything, she is still the one person who ever mattered to him.