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Forever and Eternal

Prologue

I giggled at the graduating students wondering how long exactly it had been since I went through that myself. Twenty years ago exactly and that was how I met my husband. Speaking of which, he’s the big man on campus, the principal. If someone had told him he was going to be a teacher and then a principal he would have outright laughed in your face. No one thought he would amount to anything, including himself, but look at him now.

“Juliana, take your seat!” I called out to the young senior girl that was chatting noisily to the person next to her.

“Mrs. Derevan, I can’t stand him! For the last four years he has been nothing but my enemy… can’t I escape him for one minute?” she was pleading with me, but I just laughed it off and winked before saying that maybe he liked her.

That’s how it was for my husband and me. We were the cliché hate to love relationship pair although we wanted more than anything to forget about each other. We were forced to do everything together since my mother and his mother were like “best friends”. For as long as I remembered we would act civilized around our parents but then cuss each other out behind the backs of our parents. The way our relationship happened was a miracle in itself.

My husband, Ethan Derevan was known as the school King. Even though he was forced to repeat senior year again, he was still the cool, handsome, rocker boy that got all the attention of everyone. I don’t actually remember why we hated each other back then because as I said our parents were best friends. Maybe it was the day I got braces and started to get boobs and he asked me if I was getting fat or maybe it goes further back to the day he told me I was a coward.

I don’t know how far back the angry feelings with us went to, but I do remember the year when everything turned around. I still tell our children about it to this day. My eldest, Ryan has to suffer through the story multiple times because his little sister loves to hear it over and over again. My children however don’t understand the real reasons that the story is important to us however.

The story is important because it reminds us every time we have a fight that nothing can be as bad as we used to be. I was Allison “Ally” Robins a slightly short girl with long brown hair, big boobs, hazel eyes, and I was “smart”. I still remember to this day how much Ethan and I used to fight, but when I look back on it now I’m happy that everything turned out the way it did.

“To the current graduating class… I wish the best of luck and hope that no matter how out of reach your dreams seem that you will reach out and try for them! Congratulations!” my husband finished and a roar of applause rang out from the students.

Twenty years ago when we held our own graduation ceremony I stood on the podium shaking as the Salutatorian of my class and then my speech was interrupted by Ethan rushing in late and grabbing the microphone away from me to profess his love. I was unable to run away and my answer of course was that I loved him as well, but it is very embarrassing to say that in front of all your fellow peers and such.

Now you might wonder why I’m sitting pondering about things twenty years in the past, but it’s simple really. I want everyone to know that love can come in all shapes and sizes. Love can be so tiny and then suddenly explode into full bloom or it can do what happened with Ethan and me. You can be in love and never realize it, but when you do it’s like you’ve been hit with a ton of bricks.

I can remember word for word what happened twenty years ago because two years out of high school Ryan was born and then we began telling him the tale as a baby. I have always told the tale in first person and I’m going to continue to now. This is a story about trust, loss, and hope for tomorrow. A tale no one knew would be written about a love that I have that I hope is Forever and Eternal.