The Night Two Broken Hearts Mended

Pentina Weekly Prompt — Memories

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Some years after her accident and he moved away, a hometown party reunited them. She agreed to take him to his parents’ house. There, he carried her from her wheelchair to his old bedroom.

“You’re still my May,” he whispered.

Weeks later, at twenty-one, a brain aneurysm took him forever.

This story is inspired by an unexpected night I spent with my first love just before he died.

Thank you J.A. for this prompt.