Nick led me into the drivers seat of my pickup truck. I was starting to calm down. I didn't know this woman, her name or even what she looked like. But the sheer thought of the vehicle where she died sitting right behind my head as we brought it back to the yard crushed me. I felt for her, the family.
"Flynn, look at me." Nick said, tugging on my sleeve. My eyes were puffy and red.
"I know it's a lot to take in; everybody's first fatal always hits hard" he took a deep breath.
"I've seen things out there I never want to see again. Just know your reaction is totally normal, its okay" He slid across the bench seat and wrapped his arms around my waist.
"I won't let go this time, I promise." he said as he kissed my cheek.
"Lets go get you a birthday drink" He said, a smile growing on his face.
I wiped the tears from my eyes and started the truck as he ran out to open the garage door. I clicked the truck into drive and slowly pulled out the bay as Nick shut the door behind me.
"Wait till you see this place. Before we go pull over right here." he points to a small shed right next to the side of the road saying
5 Dollar Firewood
We get on the highway for two exits until he tells me to get off.
"Okay, look on the left for a yellow gate. It'll be closed." he asks as I slow the truck.
I find the gate and pull right up to it. Nick hops out and fiddles with the lock. There is a sign that says
NO TRESPASSING, NO MOTOR VEHICLES
He pushes the gate open and waves me through, I reach down and pull the lever on the floor for four wheel drive. He closes the gate behind me and locks it.
"Are we even allowed up here?" I ask as I command the truck up the snowy trail.
"Not really, but its worth it. I know every cop in this town anyways" He trails off.
The trail is snow packed, but my truck and its new tires handle it easily. It brings back memories of Nick and myself still riding when there was snow on the ground.
We keep going up, and up, and up.
"Okay, almost there" Nick excalaims as we enter a clearing at the top of the final hill.
I see an old stone building. It's quite small. It has a stone chimney. Its must have been an old weather station or outpost or something.
"Lets go" Nick says smiling widely.
We walk over to the other side of the little stone house.
The view punches me right in the face. I feel the breath leave my lungs.
"Oh my god" I exclaim as I take in the view. The entire valley is in front of us. I cant even see houses, just a few steeples of churches way off in the distance. The silence is deafeningly beautiful. I can't get over how amazing it looks. I stand in the snow frozen in awe at the sheer beauty and silence.
"Your not in Whaling City anymore kid" He says as he wraps his arm around my waist and stands next to me.
"I want to move up here, to Vermont, with you" My mouth moves before my brain can scream the words
Shut. Up. Flynn.
A long silences passes.
Nick takes a big, shaky breath.
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What I Left Behind (boyxboy)
Teen Fiction[COMPLETED] Flynn, 22, leaves his home in the city and heads north; He finds the boy he left back in high school, the one who haunted him for years. Nick Nolan. Picking up where they left off all those years ago; things seem happy and life seem...
