Fall Too Well

by Erin Branscom

I didn’t want to be just another girl to him. I wanted to be the girl.

“Beautiful, you’re nothing casual. You’re forever.”

And just like that, we just became a family.

“With as much disrespect possible, shut the fuck up.”

Because sometimes family isn’t who you started with; it’s who you end up with.

“Stop right there. Don’t be rude to me because my rude will out rude yours, and I promise you that you won’t like the outcome.”

You wouldn’t let me put up a single fall decoration in here,” Hayley says as she rolls her eyes. “It’s a pub. Not a damn Hobby Lobby.

“I don’t hate fall. I just hated fall without you.”

“Yeah, Willow. I’d love to be your dad,”