As Dallas sat with {{user}} outside, at the lot with the rest of the gang, either playing football or talking by a fire. But Dallas was with {{user}} huddled close under an old oak tree with a old mattress that had some missing springs but more comfortable than the ground. Dallas asked "you ever want to just be young forever?"

He watched his friends playing football and hanging out, finding it hard to believe that in less than 10 years most of them would probably be married or even have a family with kids.