I swear, it didn't start out like this. A month ago, I was a normal girl with a boyfriend at a different college. The most scandalized my family ever got was when I told them I still hadn't decided my major. But last Winter Break was different... totally different.
You have to understand.
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Okay, I'll start at the beginning. My mom and dad split up when I was five. I don't really remember it that well, so I don't think it really bothered me when my dad started dating. A few years ago, he sat me and my sister down in the living room with this really serious expression and told us that things were getting 'serious' with this lady named Diane who lived down the road. He explained that he'd never brought her over because he wanted to make sure it was right first -- he'd had a strong feeling about it for a while, but he hadn't wanted to rush things. We were both like, 'Sure dad, that's great, can we leave now?' not realizing that we actually already knew Diane. More specifically, we knew Diane's son, Jason Hanes.
God. Jason Hanes. All the girls I know in the neighborhood used to lose their fucking minds over that guy. He was a few years older than us, so, at the time, I never paid much attention to it. Martin and I started dating at the end of high school, so I wasn't really doing a lot of looking around. All I knew was that he was a lifeguard at the local pool during the summers, that he went to the local college, and that my friends would basically cum in their panties just talking about him. The first time I saw him -- like, really saw him -- was the first time he dropped off Diane for lunch. He was heading to his job and basically only stopped in to say hi.