I’ve been in love with Trip Wiley since I was sixteen years old.
Yep. That Trip Wiley.
Academy award-winning actor, known philanthropist, People’s Sexiest Man Alive two years running…
Yeah.
It’s not like I’m some delusional stalker-fan. It just so happens that he was my high school sweetheart back in 1991.
In the years since, he’s simply been The One That Got Away.
We just can’t seem to get on the same page at the same time.
Our timing may have sucked, but the feelings had already been confirmed. Years ago.
At least his were.
He doesn’t know that I had chosen to love him back.
I need to fix that.
And I need to do it now.
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I wasn’t quite as surprised as I should have been when the phone rang on that otherwise uneventful afternoon. I was pretty sure I already knew who was calling.
I grabbed it off its base on the first ring, and I don’t even think I said hello before being met with, “My father died.”
I gripped the phone in my hand, not quite believing what I was hearing. Not just the startling news being disseminated, but the voice of the person delivering it.
It’s strange how there are people in your life that never seem to leave it. Those friends that you may not talk to regularly, but whom you still very much consider a part of your life. You may go months, even years without seeing one another or speaking. But once you wind up together again, it’s as if not a single day has gone by.
I have lots of friends like that. I don’t know what the formula is, but I’m like Fry’s dog. Once I bond with someone, even someone new, it’s for life. Most of the people in my inner circle are the ones who have steadily been a part of it, however. My father has always been there for me, and my best friend Lisa is my rock. Even my little brother Bruce and I managed to form a decent friendship during our twenties.
But what is it about high school? Is it just the fact that you spend every single day with those people? Every single day over the course of four very formative years that bonds you forever? At the age of thirty-one, I had friends through work and around the neighborhood. I had lots of buddies from college. But for some reason, it wasn’t the same. Sure, I kept in touch. But I always found myself coming back to my center, my core. The tightest bond I ever maintained was with the group from St. Norman’s graduating class of ’91.
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