Autumn's Leaves

Let's clear things up a bit. Autumn - a noun and the name of the third season of the year. Autumn - a time where leaves begin to have the color of brown and orange and turn brittle and fall. The season when fruits and crops are gathered. And the time of the year where your grumpy ol' neighbours start to complain for the cause of having to sweep there lots because withered leaves are scattered around. That Autumn.

But theoretically, it's just not 'that Autumn' I was thinking about.

Autumn is a girl who technically doesn't know she has cancer until she was eighteen. She met a boy when she was eight. And she started collecting leaves at the age of five. Autumn and her old friend Thomas "Tom" Parker Andrews weren't very infatuated with each other until she turned nine. She started to have cancer at the age of eleven and Thomas fell in love with her when she was thirteen and he turned fourteen. Autumn never knew what life was actually about because all she ever required in her thoughts was how everything was going to happen in the future. Well, until she blew more candles and became eighteen and realized what all of this was about because she knew that if a person had to ride their bike all the way up a hill, she knew that it had to go down since there were no happy ever afters.

And...

Thomas had to let her go when she left on her nineteenth birthday.