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2021-08-25 09:51:27The night pressed on, and Mav stayed by her side. She was nothing but smiles the entire night. A simple birthday cake seemed more than she had ever had before. She was as bright as the moon itself. Throughout the night, she seemed happier than he had ever seen her.
“When you're done with babysitting the princess, you should come to hang out with some of us in the woods.” One of the girls whispered into his ear.
“I am not babysitting,” Maverick said. “I am here with my friend.”
“Sure.” She said as she looked at him. “I mean, if you really want to be stuck with a kid all night. I just thought you would like to come to hang out.”
“Well, I don’t,” Maverick said. He scanned the area and saw her starting to yawn. Knowing that she had hadn’t slept well in the past few days because she had been so excited. “Dawn?” he walked up to her and hel
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Over the next year, the two often met even though they only had two classes together. She was carrying a course load of three times as many classes as he was. She was serious about the number of degrees she would be working on. He thought there might be four or five by the time she was done adding to her interests.Dawn was as normal as she could be when she was around him. She had sensed there was something that he was keeping from her, but she also didn’t want to hear it if it was what she thought it might be. He was nineteen. She knew that in her bones every time she saw him. She was on borrowed time with him. She expected him to pull back from the friendship that the two had. Though it was odd, he never seemed to think it really was. She just went along with it, knowing sooner or later the one thing she thought was safe was going to leave her in the dust.Knowing him, he would find the perfect woman to go out with,
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After two more grueling years, the day he had not looked forward to for a year was now upon them. He looked at her standing before him. “Four years, and you still look the same.” He laughed. “Maybe if you grew some more, you would be taken a little more seriously.”“Maverick, I stopped growing a year ago,” Dawn said as he teased her. “This is the last one for me.”“How you managed to graduate four times already, including two master's degrees, and I still have only one to my name,” Maverick said with a laugh. “It is okay, though. I don’t mind being the dumb one in this relationship.”“Well, I am a certifiable genius.” She said. “Wait, I meant certified.”“You had it right the first time.” He chuckled. “So, are your parents coming?”“They said they had too. Since the press go
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The phone's call never stopped. The video chats never stopped. There were text messages to start every day for both of them. Though they both had long hours and the time seemed to fly by. He was still working in Europe and had been there for a year and had come back for a year and a half. Though the time they had spent together was minimal during that time, they had still been close. She was working on her medical degree most of the time and her Ph.D. as well at the same time. No one really understood the power of her brain at this point.Though the schools had tested her at nearly every stage of her growth for her teenage years, they couldn’t get an accurate reading on her. They had to say though she was in the top one percent of IQ in the world. She had a brain that they just wanted to study, though, as she got older, she fought them on all the tests. She was over the fact she was different or
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Dawn cried when he left as she watched from the airport parking lot. The plane took off, and she felt that hole in her heart again, knowing that he was going to be gone for over a year this time. It hurt in a way that she didn’t know it could.After she pulled herself together, she focused on her work at the hospital. She was doing more to be done with everything quicker. When he was settled in his new place, the calls and texts were the only things she looked forward to.Time seemed to move on at a grueling pace put soon enough, the day she wanted the most was finally upon her. He couldn’t come home, and she understood that. She had a friend’s wife hold up her phone, so he could watch overseas as she took those steps across the stage to finally be a doctor. When she made it back to get her phone, he was smiling like he had been the day they grad
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Dawn woke and knew that it was odd there was nothing from him. She thought maybe it was just because of the day, but she had thought maybe something could come through. It was her eighteenth birthday, after all. A half a world away, but in her heart, it just didn’t seem right.The day's events were her going to her mother's and listening to how they had changed all the decorations for the party to fit Jenny’s wedding more than her and Christian’s party. Dawn didn’t even know if he was coming at all to the party. He didn’t seem like he cared too much for anything that was being done. Dawn didn’t either. Though she knew the reasons she had thought of that her mother had gone all out for the party, she had hoped maybe it was the last-ditch effort to be nice with her. Dawn knew that was a long shot, and the more the day went on, the more she knew she had no hope of that
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Maverick led her out to the dance floor. He held her close to him. “So far, how is your birthday?” he asked as he smiled at her.“Well, I just got the best birthday present.” She smiled up at him. He laughed at her response.“I’m not a birthday present.” He said. As he spun her gently as the song played on. Then he brought her close to him and held her there as she stared into his eyes.“You chose the song?” she asked.“After some persuasion.” He replied. “It seemed your mother had a few ideas still.”“I know.” She said with a sigh. She looked around, and people were staring at the pair. The balloons were released, and they were in the middle of it. She laughed at the slightly surprised look on his face. “I think you stole her crowning moment of trying to make sure I knew I wasn’t really a par
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Later that night, when the entire complex was quiet. He was rubbing her back slowly. “Are you okay?” he asked softly as he adjusted her weight to more of his chest than his shoulder where she had been propped for the past half hour.“Yeah.” She said as she moved her head to look at his face.“I’m sorry that I had to hurt you.” He said as he kissed her head.“But you didn’t really.” She said as she smiled at him. “It kind of had to happen. I think you made up to me with everything else.”“Lots of waiting and painful nights went into planning that.” He said as he chuckled, and then he moved to be eye to eye with her. “Dawn, I love you.”“I know.” She said with a smile. “I love you too. I have been telling you all this time.”“You have been?” He asked.
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The next two months flew by. Maverick surprised her every day with something. It didn’t have to be big but he never walked in the door without something for her. “You're spoiling me,” Dawn said as she smiled at him when he arrived with the latest gift of some flowers.“Well, then, I have a question for you,” Maverick said as he looked at her as she cooked the small dinner for the two of them.“What?” she asked as he stood in the back of her.“How about you let me spoil you for the rest of my life?” he asked, and she turned around and looked to find him holding out a small ring. She looked at him with wide eyes. “Please?”“Mav.” She said as she looked at him. She saw that he was holding his breath, waiting for her answer. “Yes.”He could finally breathe again. He took off the first ring that he gave her and replaced it with the ring
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