18 And Done

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For Dylan's eighteenth the family went to dinner. Summer came, and finally, they would be able to sleep together. Want to know what ruins plans though? When you're on your period still. Dylan hoped it would end soon, Summer had been making plans on making love all night for all of a few weeks.

Nightfall for weeks, was goodnight, not goodbye. He graduated, he was getting a job, he'd be driving soon. His artificially redheaded woman lay next to him, stand next to him, sit beside him. She was holding him through everything. His fighting for years, his search for himself, his search for love. It had ended. He found his values, his life meaning, he found the woman of his dreams and his war, struggling like a fish flopping on a deck in high school had ended. But. Life.

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