Hershey Kisses were this 11-year old’s favorite candy. Soft, gooey, melt in your mouth chocolate.

Which is why when her parents took her to Chocolate World in Hershey, PA, Jazz just had to get a memento - a teddy bear with her favorite candy on it. It didn’t hurt that the teddy bear was blue - her favorite color.

Jazz took Kisses, the bear, everywhere! To dance class, to school, and especially on trips.

In that respect, Florida was no different. Sun shining and warm, with an ocean breeze. But what was different was that this time, Jazz met a friend. A cute boy. That happened to be a family friend. But he wasn’t just cute.

This lanky 11-year old was butterflies-in-your-stomach, make-you-giggle-nonstop, his-presence-makes-you-act-like-a-dork level cute.

It was unfair, really, to only get to spend a few days of vacation with him. But the two kids spent the entire trip playing on the beach together, blowing bubbles together, playing house together, forging a strong friendship. And everywhere these kids went, Kisses the bear went with them too.

Soon though, vacation was over.

Jazz didn’t want to leave. She had just made a best friend! A cute best friend! How was she going to let him know she liked him? How could she tell him that he was unforgettable? That she was going to miss him? Maybe a note?

Jazz wrote him a little goodbye note. But it wasn’t good enough. She wasn’t even going to get a chance to say goodbye to him because he had school the day she went home. The universe was rude sometimes.

But on the last day she snuck into his room and left her note on his desk for him to find.

And when he got home from school, feeling sad about his new friend being gone, he read her note and took one look at her favorite blue bear and knew that he was special to her.

He would always remember Kisses and that trip that could’ve been the start of something new.

And if these two kids got together three years later, bonding over Kisses and kisses...then the Universe just had its timeline.