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What We Tried to Forget
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garrettmaywrites
Ongoing, First published Nov 17, 2015
beachbestfrienddramaexfirstlovegirlreunionromancesummer
22 year old Drew Donovan has  just graduated college, and decides after a five year hiatus that she will spend the summer in Blue Isle Beach, the quaint beach town where she spent her first 17 summers. 
  
  No one, including herself, expected her to come back. Not after what happened all those years ago. Not after Lucas Carroll broke her heart. And certainly not after her lost pregnancy. She is an outcast to everyone except her best friend who loves her regardless of what happened and the newcomer family that knows nothing of her past.
  
   What was supposed to be her summer to start over and gain closure quickly becomes a stroll down memory lane and Drew isn't sure if she is or will ever be ready to confront the boy who nearly ruined her.


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He loosens his grip from my waist and I begin to slip under. My faces scrunches up in discomfort, and he grabs a hold of me. He pulls me closer to him, our faces inches apart. "So you can't swim." He says, grinning. "No. I can't." I say. My eyes wander down towards his chest. I just now notice that he isn't wearing a shirt. I refocus my eyes back to his face, my cheeks getting hot. "We live in California. How do you not know how to swim? There are beaches everywhere." ___________________________________________ It was the last summer before college. For Rae, this meant making memories with her best friends and vacationing till she forgot the last four miserable years of high school. After taking school too seriously and planning all the right steps for college, Rae takes advantage of the time off. For Grayson, this last summer meant deciding if he really wants to spend the next four years being a star-athlete swimmer in college to please his overbearing father, or pursue his true passion of wildlife and spend the next year traveling the world. He takes a vacation with his friends to get away from it all, hoping he will get lay back and relax. When a boat ride and a crazy storm leave the two stranded on a deserted island, everything takes a turn for the worst. Rae and Grayson must adapt to the island around them and depend on each other for survival. Rae and Grayson always knew of each other, being friends of each other's friends, but never about each other. With Rae's panic and paranoia and Grayson's laid back outlook they might seem like an unlikely pairing, but the blazing sun and time away from the outside world just may bring them closer together. Started: May 30th, 2019 Completed: June 18th, 2020

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