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“Heartbreaker then?”
I agreed reluctantly and realized that we were pulling into a driveway. Why was I so nervous to be alone with him all of a sudden? We had been alone together a million times. We had spent I don't even know how many nights staring up at the stars together. Why did it feel so different now?
“I wouldn't go that far.”
“You certainly broke my heart.”
I wanted to ask him how that was, considering he was the one that never came back during the summer. I was back the next year just like I said I would be. He was the one that never showed up. He was the one that had broken my heart. How did he not know that?
I didn't mention any of it, obviously, because it was too real and too personal. I wondered what would have been different if he would have come back that summer. Would he have gone into the military? Would things have turned out differently between us? I guess it was something that I was always going to wonder.
When we got in the house, I could tell right off the bat that he was a bachelor. Although there were several things that didn't make sense, the rest was the general mess of men. I saw a stuffed animal on the couch, and I picked it up with a question on my face.
Frank didn’t say anything one way or another about it. I don't know how I was supposed to take that, but before I could ask anything else, he was distracting me with a drink, and I followed him into the kitchen to see what he had. It had been one hell of a day, and it was the sort of day that I just wanted to forget about. With Frank by my side and a drink in my hand, I couldn’t imagine anything else than that. Frank would help me forget.
