Just Keep Driving - Jeremiah Fisher

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I always counted the days until summer. The start of summer meant three months of joyful bliss. It was a time where you could forget about everything, and just let loose of all the chaos.

Summer for me is spending the entirety of it in Cousins. My grandma Evelyn is the one who housed me. She's been doing so since I've been able to take my first steps. I'm her only grandchild so this time is very special to her. As she likes to say, I'm her very own "ray" of sunshine.

It used to be my mom, and I both. Throughout the past three years she's thrown herself into work. Summers in Cousins being too much for her to handle since the passing of my father. Cousins being the place they met. They were childhood sweethearts growing up in the same friend circle. It was always Mom, Dad, Susannah, and Laurel the four musketeers. My grandma being their mentor and second mom.

My fathers death struck me hard, but being in Cousins just felt like a piece of him was still with me. I feel like being friends with Jeremiah, Conrad, Belly, and Steven is history repeating itself. The second generation of the musketeers.

I always wish that I too could fall in love with my childhood best friend. I want the same thing with Jeremiah that my parents had. Even though he has a flirtatious personality with everyone he makes me feel special and seen. We always go on late night drives, and it feels like we are the only two people in the world. Every time we drive down the coast of Cousins I never want the night to end. My only words when we turn down the street that leads to our houses ... "Just Keep Driving"