TUESDAY TALES - Word Prompt Rose

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At noon, after his parents loaded up the family car, Lizzie cried and hugged Nick goodbye.

“See you at Thanksgiving,” he said.

“Right. Remember what we agreed?”

“We’re free to date anyone we want. We’re officially broken up. It’s over for four years, or at least the first summer break.”

“What?”

“I just added that.”

She gave him a playful slap. “We agreed we’d have no ties on each other when we left for college. And no regrets, right?”

“Right. No regrets. Free to date. No regrets,” he repeated. Emotion rose in his throat. His eyes watered. “Damn it, Wenner. Now you made me cry. Defensemen don’t cry.”

She hugged him. “No one can see.”

“I don’t want to let you go,” he whispered.

“Me, too.”

After another minute, Nick’s father tapped him on the shoulder. Nick closed the car door and turned to watch Lizzie out the back window. She cried until she couldn’t see it anymore.

 “No regrets,” she muttered, ignoring the pain in her heart. Thanksgiving might as well be light years away.

But it wasn’t to be. Lizzie’s parents sold their house to pay for her tuition and moved to an apartment in New Hampshire before Thanksgiving.

Lizzie and Nick never saw each other again, until they bumped into each other, in Starbucks, ten years later. 

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