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Willa

I sat in the kitchen, daydrea about the one person who seemed to always take up the spare space in my head

Aiden O’Hara

If you looked up handsome in the dictionary, you’d see his picture under the word Such a clichéd thing to say, but it was true Dark brown hair and gray eyes that changed colors depending on his mood, the color of his shirt, or even if the sky was blue or cloudy He had a body that should have belonged on a twenty-sohteen-year-old My older sister once said Aiden had hair that h it and see if it was as smooth and soft as it looked

There was h He was kindhearted and would do anything for anyone if they asked Aiden was sraduating class, Aiden was on track to be the valedictorian, and I had overheard o to any college he wanted

That wasn’t the path Aiden desired though He was set to join the Navy right after high school, just like his daddy had done and his granddad as well Aiden wanted to be a SEAL, and it was all he ever talked about My brother, as best friends with Aiden, had also thought about joining until our father was diagnosed with prostate cancer during Hunter’s junior year of high school Hunter didn’t have the heart to leave, knowing things would be up in the air with the family orchard

Boggy Creek Valley Apple Orchard It was my father’s pride and joy…well, besides his three kids My faest apple orchards in the United States It had been in enerations and had started off with a few apple trees and a dream Noo-hundred-and-fifty acres of trees and more than thirty-five different varieties of apples My favorite was the Pink Lady, withGala

Lacy said I just had to be the different one

With our father’s health unknown, Hunter had recently o into the Navy with Aiden like they’d originally planned They were like brothers, and Aiden spent more time at our house than he did his own, especially after his father had died a few years back in a car accident Aiden’s ood friends with my mother, Mary, and she had leaned on our family a lot after the death of her husband

Aiden’s grandfather owned a construction business in Boggy Creek, and his fas around town Most dated all the way back to when the toas founded Aiden’s father had left the Navy to help his father run the business, and when Aiden had declared that he didn’t want to follow in the footsteps of the previous O’Harato follow his own dreay Creek someday to take over the family business But he needed to pursue his own path until then

My thoughts were interrupted by rabbed a box of Fruity Pebbles She promptly poured some into a bowl and started to eat