"3, 2, 1, Happy eighteenth birthday."
"Can you promise me something?"
"Yeah."
"Can you spend my birthday next year with me?"
"Next year, and every year in the future, I will celebrate your birthday with you."
We hugged each other before dawn, kissed before dawn, and walked to the end of dawn to watch the sunrise together.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
