Chapter 4: The FutureWe woke up eager to step into tomorrow.
All our years in school together, we’d worked through what I call yesterday. We’d been too shy, too self-involved to talk to each other, unable to voice what was in our hearts. Even after our traumatic bonding. Instead, we let that silent bond solidify between us as we exchanged furtive looks. We’d been young, stupid, and consequently alone, lost in a crowd of friends we didn’t think would understand.
In early adulthood, we’d wandered through our today years. Feeling unfulfilled, we built our careers, his as a potential Olympic champion, mine as a two-year college English instructor. Still, in the back of our minds, it was if something wonderful had happened once and then eluded us through our own fault.
“As I said I told myse
