Chapter 7

They swam on the cove where the water was shallow and warm enough to enjoy. One time they hung out in a sailboat’s small cabin, laughing at the weather and eating a Lunch of egg salad sandwiches and barbecued potato chips she had brought along. Years later, he couldn’t eat barbecued potato chips without thinking of that day — without thinking about her.

They spent so much time together. They talked about everything. About school. About poetry. About music and movies they loved. They talked about life and death and dreams.

One day they went to their childhood favorite place. The place where she had seen him cry. The place that had become their favorite spot. They stayed out there till late in the evening, and when they decided to go back, on their way he pinned her against a tree and did the one thing he had wanted to do since he saw her again on that beach.

He pinned her against a tree and kissed the hell out of her. She gasped when he did it. But then her arms had