Promise Me Forever
Promise Me Forever
“Lying with Tom. On the cool, green grass beside the creek. In the dark. If it weren’t for the full moon, she wouldn’t be able to see him at all.
She was wearing her nightclothes, but she figured they covered her as much as her dress would. Tom, as always, was in his trousers and shirt. He’d started wearing a vest for carrying around his cigarette makings. She knew they were there, because she could see the bulge in his pocket, but he never smoked around her anymore.
He always came late at night, after her mama had gone to bed. He’d toss rocks at her window until she got up, clambered out the window from her upstairs bedroom, and climbed down the tree to meet him. Then they’d run to the creek and just lie there, talking about everything and nothing. She kept waiting for Tom to ask her to unbutton her buttons. But he never did.
It made her love him more for wanting to be with her while she was still all buttoned up.
“There,” he suddenly said, pointing at the sky. “Did you see it?”
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