Flowers from a lover [rewrite]

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Epilogue

Sam had finally put down the phone, he had never touched it and avoid looking at it again. He just couldn't bring himself to. He moved out of his home shortly after. He had done so multiple times before settling in England. There he found a lovely woman named Ophelia, whom he married. The couple eventually were expecting their first child, and had been unsure on a name until Ophelia found a sticky note with "Ryan" scrawled on it. She had asked Sam what the word meant, but he denied any knowledge of what it meant or where it came from. After some convincing, Sam agreed to name their first child Ryan.

Ryan had grown up a happy childhood, with loving parents who gave him everything he ever wanted or needed. Sam would tell him bedtime stories every night, and sometimes Daniel would come by to share in the tales too. A few years after, Ophelia was expecting another son. Clay's second child was named Scott. Clay continued to keep his notebook of dates near him, planning to go visit Lucas Davidson himself, but couldn't bring himself to, so he turned to the person who would believe him. Ryan. He had continued to live a good and full life, but never forgetting the boy he spoke with on the phone.

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Lucas stared at the handprints on the wall every night for weeks on end, until he noticed something written under them. I love you It read. He had placed his hand atop Leo's handprint and crumbled, listening to Unchained Melody until he fell asleep every night, taking in the words and cursing time. Woah, my love, my darling I've hungered for your touch A long, lonely time And time goes by so slowly And time can do so much Are you still mine? I need your love All he heard was Leo's voice. The photo of young Sam lay on his desk, framed and untouched.He had kept every promise he had made Leo. He took care of the flowers, in which two had bloomed. One was kept in Lucas's yard to grow and live, while the other was cut and placed on Leo's grave. After a while he realized that what Leo did wasn't selfish, and that it was an of act love. It was the cliche "If you love them, let them go." Lucas was let go. Eventually Lucas had gone outside for the first time in over a month. He smelled the fresh fall air and remembered that the last request Leo ever made of him was to live his life. So that was what he did.

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There came no explanation or answers about why one day, at the end of July both in 1970 and 2020, a phone call had been so powerful enough to break time. Neither Lucas nor Sam had gone looking for any, or told anybody. The phone calls, however unexplainable and impossible, and all of their contents were still their little secrets.  The calls made have defied every law of time and space there was, but it was no match for how much it had changed two young men's lives. The connection of those two hearts were stronger than the magic that brought them together. So, however painful and tragic the end of this story became to, now you know that once upon a time,in the same room, of the same house, fifty years apart,

Sam and Lucas had loved each other.