 Occasionally the boy will ask why they come here, to this exact stretch of sand, every day. She’ll say, “just because” or “isn’t it beautiful” or “why do you think?” But she is really just waiting for her lover, the man, the father who named this as the spot to which he’d return. So, the boy plays and she watches the waves…
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 image credit: m. r. vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 She thought she had something that set her apart. Still thinks so. But landing here with these...average stiffs? So disorienting. Especially considering the places she'd been shown in her heyday...
 image credit: E. R. Vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 Of course, she couldn't possibly remember that kiss, at that age, from that man, could she?
 image credit: m. r. vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 Yesterday he didn't know the difference between a coffin and a casket. He remembered Pa's motto: "Don't need nothin' more'n a pine box." Ma was fancier, but maybe the secondhand casket was a step too far. And he really needed a bigger truck....
 image credit: m. r. vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 Jealousy can bloom right alongside desire and often does it with cruel irony. Gigi took this way home trying hard to avoid seeing her at all, much less like this. Did he know what she knew?
 image credit: m. r. vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 He’d need time and some space to process this new demand. Her family had the money and she ran the show, but he was the one who made magic. She knew it—knew he was why patrons came in droves. The ultimatum was just the old world judging the new. He did love her, but not how they expected. How much of himself could he keep secret just to keep the money flowing?
 image credit: m. r. vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 Piecing things together meant looking back at where they’d been. Two years—in that place. Painful, maybe, but not unhinged or anything. Still, there were things they hadn’t noticed before. Things that in retrospect might’ve said, “slow down.” Might’ve screamed, “this won’t end well.”
 image credit: m. r. vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 There are so many parts of this journey that are inexplicable. If she had to choose one aspect that stood out, it would be the unnerving void of communication. Not a word. A test, possibly?
 image credit: m. r. vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 Gianni had to follow his brother, who often lured him into all sorts of foolishness. He should know better, but this time Tio swore it was truly unbelievable—what he’d found there in the courtyard—and was so worth being late to school for, again...
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