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Beau stands up and comes directly to me. “You look so gorgeous.”
I lean up to kiss his lips. “Thank you.”
He holds his elbow out to me. “Shall we?”
I hold up my finger. “One thing first.”
I head over to Aaron, who jumps to his feet at the sight of me coming toward him. “Thank you. For today.”
He gives me a hug. “Anything for you.”
I grin at him, inhaling a deep breath before turning back to Beau and finally taking the arm he offered.
“Let’s go, handsome.”
We walk out of my new home and to the side yard of my old home, arm in arm.
Christmas lights are strung from side to side, making my once-simple backyard look like a fairy-tale dreamland.
Music begins to play from a boombox sitting on the other side of the fence, propped up so we can hear it clearly over the fence.
“Thanks, bro!” Beau yells out.
All we see is Aaron’s hand wave over the fence before he walks back into the house.
Beau moves his arm to free me from his hold and steps in front of me. “May I have this dance?” He holds out his hand to me just as I realize he put on an Unwritten Law song.
I smile big. “You may.”
I laugh at how proper he’s being, but when he pulls me in close, there’s absolutely nothing proper about how he’s holding me or how amazing his hard body feels, pressed against mine.
I tilt my neck up to look at him. “Thank you for doing this and for just being you.”
He kisses my lips in a soft kiss before he twirls me around the dance floor. He’s given me a night that’s better than any school prom because this is our prom and no one else’s.
CHAPTERFORTY-ONE
Graduation Day
It’s finally here. Graduation day. A day I’ve waited for, for so long, and now that it’s here, I just wish I could push it back a few more weeks or maybe even a month.
I’m not ready to graduate.
I’m not ready to make decisions that will affect the rest of my life, not alone, not like this anyway.
Texas, Cal, and Tennessee all have given me a strict deadline of next week to let them know if I’ll be attending. I already declined Ohio. Nothing about it was calling my name, so I let them know a few weeks ago.
My childhood home sold, and since I’m eighteen, I have more money than I could ever know what to do with, but none of that matters without my dad. I should appreciate that he had everything lined up with insurance policies and savings accounts, but it doesn’t make up for the loss I feel without him.
On one hand, I feel like the smartest thing for me to do is to stay here. Here, I’ll have Debbie to support me as well as Heather and Megan, but the thought of ending things with Beau does not sit right with either one of us. He talks about doing things long distance, but California to Tennessee isreallylong distance, and I just don’t see how we could ever make it work.
Knowing that I could go with him gives me hope that we could be together, but I have this hugewhat ifhanging over me.
What if I get there and hate California?
What if we break up? Then, what would I do? I’d be stuck in California with no one.
My head starts to spin at the thoughts racing through it, and I haven’t even thought about Texas.
