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“Promise me?
everything’s okay. Better than okay, really.”
Would it happen to have anything to do with the man who fought in your honor last night?”
“Dad, please don’t expel him or anything. He’s the sweetest guy, and he’s so good to me—”
“Bring him by the house sometime,
silver chain, a dainty number 25 hanging off of it.
My number is 25.
I thought he was giving it to me, but the moment he shook his head and put it around his neck, cla...
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“See something you like, Fields?”
I see something I love,
I want to cheer you on along the way and watch with pride as they place a gold medal around your neck in two years. And with even more pride when I place something gold around your finger one day.”
“Something gold? Maybe I’m more of a silver kind of girl.”
“Please, my girl is a gold girl through and through.
“Where is she?”
“None of my dreams make sense without you in it. You are the dream, Rory.”
I couldn’t be more proud of my pretty girl.
(because he was right, I am a gold girl through and through)
I bend down, pressing the gold medal into the tattoo on my inner ankle, whispering to myself, “We made it, Mom. We fucking made it.”

