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It was a hot July afternoon, and for Autumn, an unbearable one. Living in Sanford, just
outside of Orlando, the drive from the city was a long one without air conditioning. As
she was cruising down the highway in her 1986 Pontiac Sunbird station wagon, she
searched her glove box for a hair tie.

“Shit! Why can’t I ever find a goddamn hair tie? I should just cut this shit off!”

She slammed the box shut. She knew perfectly well that she wasn’t going to cut her hair.
After two years of growing it out, it was now past her waist line. It was naturally curly
and dark brown, almost black. If anything physical about her showed her personality, it
was her hair.

Fifteen minutes later, she pulled into her driveway, finding her parents sitting on the
porch in deep conversation, obviously upset about something.

“Hey, what’s up?” She asked as she shut her car door.

Her mother looked up at her, she had been crying.

“Honey, I think you need to sit down.”

Autumn did as she was told. Her mother turned and looked her in the eyes.

“Autumn, honey,” she paused as tears began to fill her eyes. “You’re adopted.”

Autumn starred at her mother as if she had been slapped in the face.

“W-what?”

“I’m so sorry.”

“I’m adopted?”

“Yes. I’m so sorr…”

“No. I’m adopted and you waited until I was 23 to tell me?”

“Well, we got a phone call today from somebody who was claiming to be your brother.”

“Wait! So you weren’t even going to tell me?!”

Autumn stood up and started to walk to her car.

“Autumn, wait!”

“No.”

“Autumn Lee!” Her father finally spoke.

“No, Dad…or Frank. Whatever. You guys have done some shitty things in the past, but
this is it. I’m done.” She said without looking.

She got into her car and started it.

“Autumn!” She heard her mother yell with plea.

She looked at her mother in disgust and backed out of the driveway. She put her car into
drive and sped off.

Autumn’s whole consisted of nothing but disappointed form her parents, but she never
thought anything like this would happen.


After driving around for almost an hour, Autumn couldn’t take anymore. She just wanted
to forget what just happened for the time being. She pulled into a pretty low key bar, just
outside of Sanford that she would always go when she needed to get away. Once inside,
she sat down at the bar.

“Sup A-Town?” Welcomed BJ, the bartender who had been sever her drinks since the
day she turned 21 and cherries since the day she could walk.

Autumn sighed, “Just the usual, B.”

BJ smiled lightly and nodded. He turned around and grabbed a cold Corona. He had been
talking care of Autumn since she was little. For some reason, he felt it was his job to take
care of her, because he knew her own father didn’t quite do enough for her.

He set her beer in front of her and moved on down the bar to help others, keeping one eye
on her.

Autumn grabbed the bottle and hesitated.

What am I doing? I can’t run anymore. I need to figure out what all of this is. I need
to know who I am and I can’t be getting myself all fucked up.

“You okay, A-Town?”

“I just…I need to go B, thanks. Talk to you later.”

She set some money on the bar turned around, finding herself face to face with a very
attractive, tall, blonde man with piercing blue eyes.