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"You wanted to get the hell out of there, huh?"

"Basically Growing up in a college town then staying in that college town? They couldn’t have offered h to stay, in all honestly Myes and shit"

"I know, but…" Guh "Florida"

My whispered sigh is dreamy and wistful

Sun and sand and swimsuits…

"When you whisper the word like that, it’s creepy" He laughs and I buot coral and dolphins and weird shit on the brain"

Guilty

I have him on the brain, too

"I still don’t understand how anyone could up and leave Florida" I know I sound a little over the top, but I don’t care I’d give anything to live by the coast, near the wide open sea, the waves

"Because it’s hot and crowded, and everywhere you go, it’s filled with annoying tourists or snowbirds in town for the winter"

He nudges the swing forhen it slows

"That cannot be the reason you aren’t going there" I know I’ht mind passes up a scholarship to FSU?

An insane person, that’s who! I didn’t get accepted anywhere interesting, just Iowa, Iowa State, a school in Wisconsin, and one stuck between Minnesota and North Dakota

No whales, no water

"It’s not the only reason, obviously When I came to Iowa for a visit, I really clicked with the tea The facilities here are new, totally sick, and, I don’t know…it felt like the best decision for ret the decision e lose" He laughs, laying our joined hands on his hard thigh

I look down at it, study the dark hairs sprinkled across his knuckles, which I can just ht fro up at the moon

"The Midwest isn’t exactly an epicenter of activity," I can’t help pointing out, voice shaking a little Daet bored here?"

"Maybe a little, but I really love this cas like this in the South"

Quietly, I one to school in his home state: in-state tuition, the beach, Disneyworld, year-round sunshine, the beach

"Hurricanes"

Shit "Did I say that stuff out loud?"

"Just sohs softly "Youthrough the s, looking at everyone inside, laughing and drinking and having fun A few denilass, and within, people dance to the thu bass, and not at all my taste in music

I don’t miss the party one bit

I’--and learn more about him

"So what position do you play?"

"Shortstop"

"Are you any good?"

"I got twenty-three full-ride scholarship offers"

Holy shit Does that actually happen to people?

"I haven’t come and watch the tea than ive a casual shrug "Usually girls coaer "One, they’re huge fans of the gae fans of the players"

"I’ve alondered what it would be like playing in front of huge crowds like that Does it ever make you nervous?"

"It used to, back when I was freshaetic