It was the summer before my first year of college. It was also the summer my mother slipped into a coma, leaving my brother and I alone. I had been responsible for him, her, and I for years before but I had never truly experienced life. Not until this summer, not until I met him for the second time.
This summer was supposed to be simple and boring like the previous ones. I should've gone off to college with not much of a past to follow me there. But he was right in front of me after leaving years ago.
I didn't plan on taking it that far. I swear I didn't. But he was hotter, older, comfortable... and familiar.
I knew his loose brown curls and I knew those large and firm hands even if they were rougher now. His sighs weren't new to me. His walk, the way he'd hum to let you know he was listening to you. He was so attentive and so detail oriented. I knew those plump lips that had new laugh lines around them. I would learn the creases on the side of his eyes and the lines that formed on his forehead when he'd raise his eyebrows from shock.
There was something in the air in the summer of 1996. Maybe it was freedom... maybe it was desperation. Either way, it was sweet.
He made me feel good...
His name was Kane Jackson and he was my mother's ex boyfriend. But now he was all mine.
don't blame me...
-clover
summer '96
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Baby Dearest
Romance"𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣'𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙, 𝙄'𝙢 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 " When Nicole "Clover" Mayest's mother falls sick, Nicole comes back into contact with Kane Jackson, her mother's ex boyfriend. As he becomes caretaker of Nicole a...