As they left the school and went to the bar tent, Melissa asked, “How are you doing?”
“I don’t know. I never expected to see him, but now that he’s here…”
“You’re glad he’s here.”
“I’m not sure. The way we left it on graduation day…the years that’ve gone by…and me introducing you as my girlfriend.”
“But your old feelings for him…they’ve come back?”
Shay sighed. “Yeah—I think so…”
Melissa smiled and patted him on the arm. “You wait here. I’ll get us a drink.”
She left Shay standing just outside the tent beside an old maple tree. He remembered this tree. It stood across from the auditorium entrance. It was here that Dwayne and Lilly sometimes waited for him to pick them up for their ride home. Flashes of other times he’d spent with Dwayne, the feelings he’d had for the other boy, and
