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Dad talk about how it would be a miracle if anything could be done to save it.
    I didn’t care who her parents were. Instead, I was more concerned about how I could lure her in. I wasn’t the guy who got a lot of girls, but it wasn’t for the lack of trying. I was extremely awkward looking and the last to hit the later stages of puberty. Maxwell was one of my only friends and my wingman. He helped me try to get her attention on the very day I had seen her at Dripping Springs High School.
    Maxwell had every girl he wanted from the minute he knew he could. He had that knack about himself, that confidence you couldn’t develop or hell, even buy. Yeah, he had that. It is funny how some things never change.
    Anyway, he walked right up to Leah at lunch and asked her if she wants to go to Skate World that night. Roller-skating in town was the place to go on Friday nights, so he invited her to come. Skate World was really the only other thing in town that teens could do other than bingo. And no one wanted to do that!
    I can still hear her sweet response. “I’m not sure if my dad is going to allow it, but I‘ll see.”
    “I know someone who would love for you to be there.” He turned back and winked at me not thinking about how obvious he was being.
    “Really?”  She asked smiling.
    “Yeah, really. But he is too much of a wimp to ask you.” And then Max lost his doing a favor for a friend attitude. Yep. He didn’t care anymore and was more interested in her committing to coming than the conversation at hand.
    Two years later, we were heavy in love. She wanted out of town, and I wanted to do whatever she wanted to do. Her dad had hung on to the farm, but she didn’t know how much longer he was going to manage. She hated her home life and was ready to do whatever she needed to to get out of there. I knew of her unhappiness but never believed it would be used against me.
    I had been in love with her, more than I ever thought I could. We spent every free moment together, and in my world, the sun didn’t shine until she was around.
    My father immediately did not like it. He didn’t want me to plan my future around any girl. And especially a girl who wanted out of town; an escape, if you will. Mom tried to reassure him it really was love, and she didn’t think any funny business was going on, but Dad was positive that wasn’t the case.
    Dad wanted me to do whatever I wanted to do as a career or so he said … but he would have been very pleased to have his only son stay home and help with the horses. I had never had any desire to live that life and rarely spent time with them or him around the stables. I did help with cleaning the stalls and any other demeaning chores that no one else wanted to do. And yes, I hated them, but I did as I was told. Other than not seeing Leah.
    Senior year, things were going as well as could be expected. She started to act a little different, but our passion for each other only grew. Or so I thought.
    In April of that year, though, Leah dropped a bomb on me that I wasn’t in any way prepared to handle. She was pregnant. And she wanted to leave town after graduation and elope to start our own life.
    The thing about when you are young is you commit to stupid-ass things. You think anything is possible, that with “love,” anything can be done. Ha! Foolishness.
    We told both of our parents together, and her father was thrilled and ready to help her in any way he could, even welcoming me into the family.
    Mine, not so well. Mom tried to support me but was more concerned and sad by the opportunities this would steal from me.  Dad, on the other hand, lost it. We fought terribly, and we both said things that I know I would never forget. And from what Mom says, he wouldn’t either.
    The sad thing was that I was going to take whatever I had to from my father just to be with Leah. I loved her, I trusted her, and I was willing to give her anything she wanted. To me, it would be worth it.
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