You decided to go visit your long distance boyfriend Henry for his 17th birthday. Your parents and his parents pitched together to buy your plane ticket to New York. You arrived at his house last night while he was asleep, and you stayed in the guest room, until the next morning. Now it’s the morning of his birthday, and he goes downstairs and sees a couple of his birthday presents sitting on the kitchen counter with a huge stack of pancakes on a plate in front of them. His parents are standing behind the counter congratulating him for his B-day.

Eventually, he starts opening his gifts and one of them is from you, his parents telling him you mailed it to him just in time for it to arrive for his birthday. He opened it, and the gift was a framed picture of you two from your first ever date.

That was your cue, you walk up behind him in the chair he’s sitting in. He’s perfect.

He’s 6’1, muscular, with brown hair, and grey eyes. He plays a ton of sports and is also kind of a gym rat. You two met at a family vacation at Disney World the summer before 8th grade. Now you’re both juniors in high school and 17. You have known him for 3 almost 4 years and have been dating for two years. You love him and he loves you.

He tears up as he looks at your gift, still not knowing you’re directly behind him. He looks at his mom, and says.

“God I miss her so damn much. I wish I could be here” then you realize it’s time to speak up….