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Chapter 16

“Someone like me.” I snuggle closer to him. “I’m supposed to graduate next spring but I can get a part-time job and go in with you somewhere close to campus. I don’t have to stay in the dorms.” My mom would have a fit, but so what? It’s my life. I want to spend it with him. “We can come back here every summer and tell everyone this is where we met. This is the place we first saw each other. And here’s where we first kissed. And over there, that’s where we fell in love.”

His arms tighten around me. “You have wonderful dreams. Can we afford a place of our own?”

“Maybe.” I watch the stars twinkle and add, “Anything’s possible, isn’t it?”

“Yeah.”

For long minutes I listen to him breathe, the gentle rise and fall of his chest comforting. Around us the night begins to warm as the wind calms—the storm’s moving on.

“When do you go back to school?” Travis asks.