Without You.

Chapter 1: Rewind

It was a hot summers day in South Alabama. I know it would be, it had been every single day here since I was five years old.

It was 1974, and I had just turned 16. We came to Alabama every year during the summer to see our relatives. We were from Georgia and don't get me wrong i loved living in Georgia, but Alabama was so much quieter and the people seem to be so much friendlier and it was away from the hectic mess of the busy town .

I have a feeling that the summer was going to be the best of them all. I had several friends living in Alabama. They had been my friends since we first came down when I was five years old. The knew me better than my friends in Georgia did.

But I had one best friend. I first met him when I was six years old. My mother had paired me with her old friend Elizabeth's daughter and told us to go down to the ice cream parlour and get some ice cream while they caught up.

I was hanging out with her daughter Jenny when he walked into the ice cream parlour that relaxed look on his face, with his pudgy cheeks red from the heat and his hands casually in his pockets. He noticed me straight away. He came over to talk to us . At the time I had wondered why. I soon learned that Jenny was in his class but he used the excuse to come over and talk to me.

After that we began to become friends and every year up till I was 18 we met every summer and sent letters when we didn't see each other the rest of the year.

Anybody would think that the difference in homes would not make us keep in touch but that didn't stop us. We told each other everything I loved him in more ways than he knew.

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