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                  “So this is Ava,” Tyson’s dad spoke up. I looked over at him and smiled, extending my hand. I was much more at ease with this man than I could have ever been with Tyson’s mother.
                  “Hey!” I said. “It’s so good to finally meet you!” He surprised me when instead of taking my hand, he gave me a hug.
                  “I’m Tom,” he said, returning my smile. “Ty, y ou did good, son. She’s stunning !” I grinned sheepishly.
                  “Thank you,” I told him, graciously.
                  “Ava graduated last night,” Tyson told Tom. “But I think I look better in my graduation digs, don’t you?”
                  I punched him playfully on the arm.
                  “You look like a Batman wannabe,” Laura joked. “Who has black graduation gowns? That’s so morbid.” Tyson retaliated this by giving her a noogie.
                  “What are you kids doing now?” Tom asked Tyson. I saw a different question than what he’d asked in his face and silently, I hoped Tyson would see it, too.
                  “Well, I was hopin’ I could get my dad to take some of us out for some grub, since I actually made it out of school alive,” Tyson responded, glancing over at me wit h a wink. I smiled. Bingo.
                  “You’d be so lucky,” Tom replied, with a large grin. The same smile Tyson had. “Where do you wanna go?”
                  “Chinese!” Laura said loudly. “Ty, please!”
                  “Yeah, Chinese is good,” he said. “That okay with you, Ava?”
                  “Oh, of course,” I replied.
                  “Jake, you coming along?” Tom asked Jake.
                  “I can’t, Mr. Andrews, sorry,” he declined. “My girlfriend h as ‘special plans’ or something. ”
                  “They’re very special plans!” Emily walked up to us then, giving Jake a big smack on his cheek.
                  “Let’s go, I’m starving!” Laura said.
                  “I just need to go by my car and get my purse,” I said.
                  “Nonsense,” Tom said, smiling. “It’s on me, Ava.”
                 
                  So I went out to eat with the Andrews and I have to say, the food went down a lot easier compared to the dining out I’d had with Tyson’s mom a few months earlier.
     
                 
                  That summer went by so fast, it’s like a blur in my mind now. Tyson and I spent nearly every waking moment together. He was scoring more and more gigs with his band all over Virginia and even North Carolina. I was going to every show that I could, while still managing to wo rk a job at the local newspaper once to twice a week laying out the ad pages.  When August came, it was time for me to move out of my mom’s house to go live in the dorms at Virginia State University. I wasn’t really nervous about it at all because Cassie would be my roommate and it was only twenty minutes away from Constantine a.k.a. Tyson. Again, I was taking a full-time load of college classes and working part-time, but Tyson and I made as much time as we could for each other.
                  Tyson also had some transitioning of his own going on. He moved out of his dad’s house just two miles away to live with Jake and the drummer in his band, Pete.
                  People around us were changing, too. My mom was promoted within her company and for the first time since my dad passed away, there was a genuine smile on her face. Emily and Jake broke up amicably, giving Emily the opportunity to transfer to a prestigious college in California and giving Jake the opportunity to enjoy true college bachelorhood. Life was good.