An Old Relation

I decided to take a trip, from my home in Nebraska. To visit old friends up in South Dakota. I had many friends up there since my high school days.

My plan was to visit my friend Max, he and I were close for a while during freshman year. We would hang out and play games a lot and often smash shut to pieces in his yard, his family never cared. My other friend Jason, was a bit different than Max, he liked to play games and talk about stories he’d read on the internet, most of them I found rather interesting. Then there was Jason’s sister, Jazy, my god was she beautiful, the love of my life during my sophomore year.

Our relationship was mostly long distance, though we got to see each other every few months, due to me moving shortly after freshman year. We did what we could to make the best of our time together, mostly I saw her before she went to school, so it was usually a brief “hey”, a hug and then off we both went. We would talk for hours every night, we talked about anything and everything, even going into a few fantasies we had.

The relationship went on like that for six months, then came to an abrupt end after an argument about me living so far away. She couldn’t take the distance anymore and she moved on to something new for her. It hurt I’m not gonna lie, but if she was happy I was too, and we stayed in touch, so glass half full eh. For several years we kept in touch, we both graduated high school, her a year behind me, and went on to find jobs and become adults.

After our breakup things in my life went bad, moms boyfriend started beating her so we left. Moved from Montana down to Nebraska, a great distance, but something we needed to do. I still talked to Jazy often and was still deeply in love with her, even though she didn’t feel the same anymore.

One day after several years of just talking and being friends, a topic got started on us becoming a thing again. It didn’t really last too long due to the fact her parents didn’t really like me all that much. But we managed a friendship even though every so often we would just stop talking for a few months. This trip changed everything.

I made my way up to SD and had booked a few nights at a hotel that I had stayed at before. Nice place, spacious rooms with a hot tub in the living area, very elegant, could barely afford it. I got to my room and got stuff organized for my three day stay, was looking forward to hanging with the guys.

I call Max and found out that he wouldn’t be in town till the next day, he was at some convention with a friend and would be back early the next day.

“Well, hanging with Max’s out of the picture,” I said with a bit of a bummed attitude.

I then decided to call Jason, and to my surprise Jazy answered.

“Hello?” I heard her beautiful smooth sweet voice say.

“Hey, is Jason there, It’s Shane.” I said with butterflies in my stomach.

“Yeah, he’s here, hold on and I’ll get him for you,” then the phone went silent for a few minutes.

“Hey man what’s up?” Jason asked the moment he got the phone.

“Not much, hey you wanna hang out?