Spring Tide Love by Emery C. Walters

Author:Emery C. Walters [Walters, Emery C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Queerteen Press
Published: 2015-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5: Hal and Reggie: Back to Today

After Chris and Trey had left on their honeymoon, Reggie and Hal shook hands and Hal said, “That went well, didn’t it? But I wish it could have been us.”

“Well, why not?” Reggie said, smiling, holding onto Hal’s hand.

Hal looked down at their two old hands, knobby knuckles, age spots. No rings. “We’re kind of old, Reggie. We had our time.”

“Maybe this is our time, dear friend. The past was the past. The way it was, the way we had to be.” Together they walked across the sand to where some boulders lay in front of a hedge of Naupaka bushes and sat down, careful of the unaccustomed good clothes that they wore.

“Well we did what we could,” Hal replied, “not what we wanted, but what we were able to, or rather, had to, do.” They put their arms around each other, enjoying a long hug right in front of God and everybody, and turned to watch the sun setting over the ocean.

“Marry me,” Reggie said.

“Okay,” Hal replied, and then they both laughed.

“It’ll freak those kids right out of their jockey shorts!” Hal went on.

“They’re probably already out of them,” Reggie laughed.

Hal sighed, still smiling, and said, “I never did tell Chris I slipped him my iPod on purpose.”

Reggie said back, “I never did tell Trey I was the one who drove him home the night he saw the Nightmarchers.”

Did either of those things matter? Not one little bit. Time rolls on, and if you’re not lucky the first time, well, the tide always comes back in, again, and again.

Never give up.

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