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Dante snorts “Yeah, actually, you could have I was an ass to you Second I saw you, I had you all sized up and figured out” He s I won’t forget that night you agreed to couy,” he adds with a nod at Tye “I owe you, Connor”

I se itself fro I can’t wait to do a feature piece on you and your work”

Dante winks at ot my number”

When I come out the doors of Piazza Place, it’s just plain serendipity that Zak and his ht up to the steps “Well, well,” says Zak in his sot here just in ti”

Seriously Trying Not To Cry “Thanks for ines that ood to know that, even on my worst days, I always had a friend there”

“Don’t let anyone stand in your way,” Zak tells limmer with a moment of self-reflection “… especially not yourself The future’s yours for the taking”

I join Alan by the car, and when I look back at the steps of Piazza Place, I find Brett and Skylar at the top with Dante and Tye, and Zak and Richie at its base, all of the an unintended picture in my mind I’ll remember forever

Ah, who a? I’ll make new pictures every time I come visit them Oh, shoot I have to set a reminder in oing to

My gaze drops to the front step, where bright bubbly rainbow letters artfully spell out “C-YA LATER CONNOR” in chalk, coreen fire over low

A beautiful chalk-illustration farewell froh, wherever he is

I pull out ether, all of you! I want to take this moment with me!”

After a chuckle froe, squeezing together on the front concrete steps

Alan comes up to my side “Go up there Stand with your boys I’ll snap the shot”

I turn to my boyfriend, touched, and hand him the phone “Take several,” I ask hi”

Brett, having heard that, protests “I don’t do a weird wide-eyed thing!”

I juht up the steps and, for one last tiether on the steps with htly Alan lifts uys ready?”

There is nothing in the way of my future It is as bold as the chalk under our feet—colorful, bright, and limitless “You bet your ass we are,” I call out

Flash!

The End of Season 2