A Promise to Remember
"I don't care what they say, I'm in love with you. They try to pull me away, but they don't know the truth. My heart's crippled by the vein, and I can't stop crying..."
I lingered there, the words echoing my own story. I first met Ted at 17 and had bent myself for him ever since.
Now I was hitting 30, and this madness had to end.
That night, dreams transported me back to the teenage Ted—the boy who had transferred to our small-town high school in his sophomore year.
While the other boys were still scruffy and unpolished, he arrived in a black down jacket, with curls framing his forehead and a tall, lean frame that made him stand out.