Hold Us

During the summer its normally hot and everyone wants it to be here. The swimming, roller coasters. Friends. Cook outs. Water balloon fights. But Haisley hates the summer, Not because of mosquitos or even June bugs. But because that was the year she lost the one boy she had loved most. Not only has she never forgave herself. She will never forgive her mother.

I saw him cross the boardwalk. For the first time the waves seem to have stopped as the sun setting in the background waved goodbye. I clutched my promise ring he'd gifted me. "I hate you! I never want to experience love again. It's fake and I hate it." The tears were none stop. I wish he'd had kept us. Held onto us. Forever. I'll never forgive him. Or myself.