Forever Summer

Jayce Donovan was someone I used to know.
There was a time when we were inseparable-some would even say attached to the hip. We used to chase the sun on the beach until it hid behind the clouds. We swore that we would always have summer forever. Back then, everything felt like it would. Like nothing and no one would ever change.

But everything did.

The summer before freshman year he started pushing me way. First with silence, then with his coldness and finally with his cruel words. He bullied me and mocked me along with everyone else. I never knew the reason.

Sophomore year was when I had enough, and I left for Colorado packing everything and promising to never come back. But a part of me had clung to those summers and Him.
Now I'm back, one last summer before college. One last time in the town that made me miserable. I had promised myself when I had left to never look back, I wouldn't take the risk of running into him. That I would not allow the past to find me and haunt me again.

But it has.

He's here and no matter how much I try to avoid him it seems like the more I run into him. I keep trying to tell myself I'm over it, over him, that I don't care. But the truth is that I need answers.

I need to know Why.

Why he destroyed what we had? Why did he destroy me?

Why our forever summer ended before it even began.

I need answers because this is my last chance. When I leave this town at the end of this summer I'm not coming back.

Not for Jayce. Not for the memories.

Not even for the summer we swore we would always have forever.