The summer after high school was the summer of goodbyes.
It was a summer full of heat and of loss and of what should have been happy memories.
But to Sammy, it became the summer of goodbyes.
A goodbye to her best friend.
A goodbye to her boyfriend.
A goodbye to her parents and her siblings and her little shi tzu named Terrance.
It was a long summer. Every day was a little closer to the end of the summer and another goodbye Sammy would have to whisper to the world.
A goodbye to the trees, for holding up her skies when she was down.
A goodbye to the crisp night air she greedily inhaled.
Goodbye to the schools and the library and the corner pop shop.
Teachers told her a goodbye was transient. It was a moment in passing that flowed into the next so that the hellos would lose their meanings.
Goodbyes were meant to be a "see you later," or a "come by soon."
It was never a finality. Never the echoing vocals at the end of an opera.
But to Sammy.
The summer after high school really was a goodbye. Forever.
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NANOWRIMO 2020
Short StoryShort, unconnected stories written every day of November 2020 for NANOWRIMO. Each story stands alone and is a mix of comedy, drama, romance, self-love, existential crises and miscellaneous other feelings of being. As of now this is a series of one...
