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Until you’re crying like a baby watching your home turn into a bonfire and then just a wisp of smoke in the distance while you clutch that hunk of spiky gold plastic to your chest. Until you’re running for the car and shoving into the backseat with the only thing you could think to grab, a stupid third-grade soccer trophy because it was within reach when the sirens went off. Home is where the heart is until it’s not. They eat the trees in huge, whooshing gouts, take their time through the wild grasses and fields of lavender, and nibble on the stucco siding of our one-story farmhouse. The fires are coming in over the mountains, hot, red, and fast, consuming everything in their path. The Boy with the Dimples at the Gas Station. Instead, I tell him to come with me onto the playground at recess and we sing that song “Rain Rain Go Away” but with the words changed around so the rain will come back. When he sighs, it reminds me of the way my mommy sighs when she looks at the dry farmland outside with all her dead herbs shriveled up, and all I want to do is tell him it will be all right even though I don’t know if that’s true. He has blond hair and blue eyes that are the color of my blanket.

His name is Dallas, which is a place that seems very far away and exotic, and he wears a dinosaur backpack. The New Boy Who I Kissed Behind the Door at School. Warm like the burning sun in the burning sky. Blooming in fields that stretch to touch the horizon.

Smell of milk, and beyond that, the smell of lavender. I scream until I feel a familiar heartbeat.

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