m

eeks

bankruptcy

to seize our home. That's when I realized-

ly how thing

didn't ask him to drop out and come home either. Instead, he bo

my father rented a small place. I decided

ong about her. If she had married him just for his money, she would've walked out by n

y in New York alone. And honestly, maybe ending this relation

his was

garden, I looked at him as he gently held

't want to leave behind anything that ties me to this p

r dad's bankruptcy. You're not thinking clearly. Let's

coming ba

's from Lubbock, remember? I'm

aid gently. "Once I've put my

ime. And when you're ready, I'll come visit yo

. so tired of everything. Right

ney. If you want, I can call him-maybe he

ut on my own. Don

do this for you. I'll call him

ht. I won

s going to do in a city I hadn't seen in years. But if there was

name is Ad

e he a

hed my che

personally. You'll see-he'll say yes. And one day

u false hope. I need time. After everything that's happ

r. I can be patient

friends, Lucas. You

ng up on you-not now, not like this. Go on

ds to explain that this

o me. More than anything, I didn't want to lose his fr

bye,

ars rolled do

leaving the cit

aw school where I had spent nearly every d

me into a t

Don't forget me..."

s card into my pu

ver see h

wait for me, j

he was

out to him after all this...

who

swept up by one of the girls

e is the least

amily to t