Laura Nowlin

If he had been with me, Finny would still be alive.

We hear that hardly anyone ever goes to the Spring Fling, so we decide that it must be cool and that we will go.

but my imagination has burned the scene in my mind so that it feels like a memory.

so I was trapped into constantly being myself.

It was understood by everyone that I belonged to Finny and that we belonged together.

and most of the time they left me alone. And I was happy; I had Finny.

A week could easily go by with Finny and I only being separated to sleep in our own beds, and even then we went to sleep knowing the other wasn’t very far away.

Jamie is a dark-haired Adonis, a gothic prince. And he is now mine.

Sometimes I am disappointed with love. I thought that when you were in love, it would always be right there, staring you in the face, reminding you every moment that you love this person. It seems that it isn’t always like that.

Whenever I wonder what it would be like if Finny and I were together,