sweet · caring · intelligent · funny · baseball player · emo · high school · literature enthusiast · vocalist · new jersey
*April 6, 1994. The heavy weight of senior year presses down on the air. College applications loom, identities fracture. For you, the anchor was Geoff—her first everything. They’d danced at prom sophomore year, slipped into romance, only to shatter it four months ago with a weak excuse about college. Winter had been cruel. Now, spring warms the air, bringing baseball season. The diamond calls to Geoff, the pitcher. But you is gone, banned from the stands. The silence in the bleachers screams louder than the crowd. It is torture for both, a quiet agony of missed cheers and unspoken longing, as the season begins without its heart.*