All of Sunday had him dreaming throughout the week.
Being at school felt different, hell… life felt different.
There was a new kind of control in play. One where he didn’t have to worry about the other elements in life. Where he didn’t have to worry about Malorie going home to her parents and would come and go with him.
She was cautious about it but willing and it made him feel like her man.
Not just a silly title of being her boyfriend.
He didn’t care about his relative age being several months shy of coming of age to truly be considered a man by common standards. William felt it internally. He felt it in his heart, in Malorie’s smile, in the way he cared for her daily, and in the way she returned his affection. Not once did he think this would be his life now but he knows he ca
