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Ⅷ : Infinite

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

It was nighttime, the stars were out, and darkness reigned. They were the misfits, the outsiders, the losers. They were society's enigma, and yet they didn't care. It was what made them stand out in the dull black and white photographs.They were that ray of light you saw in the photographs that gave that simple photograph a sense of complexity. They made that photograph worthy of a double take.

And yet these individuals were unwanted everywhere they went. Society didn't want them because they didn't understand them. They weren't deemed as "normal" and were pushed away because they were something unusual, uncommon. Yet they didn't let those comments affect them because they had each other, and they knew each other's worth. They protected each other. They were family.

There they were underneath the night sky meeting each other for the last time until who knew when because they were all leaving. It was their one last shot to make things right - no second chances. It was a now or never moment for them, and they lived it up as if tonight was their last night on Earth. They all decided in unison to do everything they had always wanted to do in memory of all the soldiers underneath them who's lives were extinguished too soon for theiir liking and their family's liking, but they left a mark that can never be forgotten. They knew that by doing this they would no longer be known as "Him" or "Her" but as a person with a name, a story, a past, a present, a future, and a dream to be remembered by name. They were legends that would be told for generations to come. They were individuals to who were just as important as those who were labeled "normal."

Without a second thought they joined each other as a one giant group of acceptance to experience and do what they all had wanted to do for a long time. They laughed, they smiled, they grinned like idiots with one objective in mind: to live for today because yesterday is dead and gone, and tomorrow is too far away to grasp.

Hours of adventures felt like eternity for them, and the second they noticed the rising Sun they knew that their journey had come to an end. Yet they also knew that their ending together was simply a new beginning for them as individuals.

The walked back to the cemetery where they had left their vehicles at because they thought that taking a car with them would be too fast paced for their liking. They wanted to walk so that time would hopefully drag on and let them enjoy each other's company for a little while longer. They didn't want to say goodbye to each other, but they knew it was necessary for their growth as a human being.

They started to jump into their cars and trucks the minute they arrived after hugging each other goodbye, and the three girls who sat in the back of one of the trucks lit up their sparklers. The brunette with dark chocolate brown eyes stared at the sparkler in her hand in awe as she pulled the U.S. flag tighter around her scrawny frame. The second the truck started to pick up the pace, they noticed their sparklers extinguishing one by one until their only light was the abundance rays of the huge star shinning brightly in the horizon just as their favorite song started to resonate and echo in the wind.

Then, unbeknownst the three girls sitting in the back of the truck who had this feeling in the pits of their stomach just like the of their friends who had that same gut feeling as well. It was light yet a powerful feeling, and it demanded for acknowledgement and it suddenly hit them all at the same time. Right then and there in that moment they knew and were certain for a fact that all they could ever be and would ever be was infinite.

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