Overview

When Blake returns from a deployment to find out his girlfriend was cheating on him, he thinks a summer at the beach will be a perfect escape. What he doesn't expect is to find a new companion- his next door neighbor, Carlos.

A summer away, spent surfing on the beach. I thought it would be the perfect way to forget about my deployment and my now ex-girlfriend. Then I bumped into my new neighbor, Carlos- first in the hallway, then at the pool, and again on the beach. It was an attraction I didn't understand, but I was here to be open to new things, right? Things got heated, we got close- and I was eventually going to have to choose between all of the things I knew and all of the things that could be if I let go.

This is a short story with about 5,800 words.