lemonade | ethan

forty seven

4 months later

dear dillon,

sorry for leaving you hanging for so long. i'm sure you're wondering how life is going for me in brooklyn bay seeing as you've already mentioned all the cool things you've been doing for the past couple of months. like, i CAN'T wait to meet julie! i'm sure she's a wonderful person. i can't believe you even managed to get a girlfriend to be honest.

anyways! i can't wait to see you again. i could introduce you to my boyfriend, ethan and all my other friends. i know ethan is all i ever talk about in these letters but i honestly feel like you would get along with him very well. you don't have to worry about my well being as long as ethan is around. he makes me the happiest girl in the world.

like for valentine's day, he made a fort and we watched movies and ate snacks. it was truly romantic because it came from the heart. he even gifted me letters he had written everyday from the day he realized he had fallen in love with me. i cried. of course.

and he'd even bring his friends to maya and i's lacrosse games and be our biggest cheerleaders. it was dorky but super adorable. he is truly my number one supporter as i am his.

i've never felt love like this, dill. really. he is my everything. we've been through so much hardship and criticism throughout these months. it's not easy falling for a south sider in this town. and even though dad LOVES ethan, mom seems to hate him with every bone in her body. but i'm seeing slight improvement. very, very, very slight.

anyway, melanie had her baby! it was a rush. he's so adorable. i can't wait for you to meet him. his name is dakota. oh! did i mention melanie made ME his godmother! ME! i loved it! she also made raymond his godfather which to me, sounds like a BAD idea considering how goofy raymond could be haha. could you imagine raymond with a kid?? it's just a disaster waiting to happen lol.

i'm sure you're wondering about the situation on clayton and sonny. or maybe not, i don't blame you for not caring. but even after all these months, i'm still sad they never got their happy ending. i wish i could say that sometimes things aren't meant to be but i had truly hoped that sonny and clayton would have ended up together.

clayton had somehow convinced his family to move across the country because he was afraid that news would come out of him being bisexual since too many people in our friend group knew. he just couldn't handle the possibilities of everyone finding out. he wanted to be with sonny. so much. but he didn't have the courage to try.

apparently ruby was in the bathroom making out with another boy when sonny was coming out to ethan during the winter formal and she had used the new and shocking information against clayton, making him extremely scared. i don't blame him, though i wish ruby would just mind her business.

but on the brighter side of things: brooklyn bay has changed, dillon. south siders are fitting in better. some north siders still aren't the happiest but some, if not most, have come to terms of agreement on this long rivalry and have become friends with one another. it's an amazing sight so... come home maybe. i'd love to see you again.

even maya, someone i thought would've never changed, loves southsiders because honestly, they're just people like us. sometimes i pictured her and raymond becoming a couple with how much they tease one another. but with the amount of times maya has rolled her eyes at one of raymond poor jokes are too much to count and quite frankly, i don't think they'd be able to put up with one another as a romantic couple. friends are enough.

my friends have become a large part of me these past few months. one day, you'll be able to experience all the drama, pain and joy we've all gone through together and then maybe, just maybe, you will want to stay instead of run.

oh! i almost forgot to mention. i got accepted into a top school. unfortunately it's far from brooklyn bay. but while most of my friends are staying in this town for college, i made a promise to myself and to you that i wouldn't let anything hold me back from following my dreams. so, i think i will go. it's just going to be tough telling everyone. especially ethan.

i'd love to write more. maybe tell you all the fun things i've done or plan on doing this summer. make sure you write back! if you don't, i'll kill you.

love and miss you so much <3

devon.

END OF CHAPTER FORTY SEVEN

a little filler to make up for the four months that had passed. DONT WORRY THOUGH. THE STORY ISNT OVER YET!!!

what's a completed lemonade story without SUMMER????