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 "I love bridges," Tristan says as soon as they set foot upon it, "I love thinking that people just saw a body of water and were all like: 'I want to cross that....wait! I want to cross that...by foot." He is so incredibly excited by this notion that he seems to forget the fact that they had been walking that bridge for the past hour (or so they assumed) and have yet to see the other side, "Do you remember the first time we did this? Christ, in like seventh grade. We thought we were so badass. You, me, and Eileen." It had never seemed to take this long when they had all wandered it together those few years ago, now they were starting high school. "I remember when we found it, and how you kept saying it wasn't safe to cross it cause we didn't know who built it. Eileen was all: 'you don't need to know who built a bridge to cross it, I mean...do you know who built every bridge you cross? Like, do you make your mom stop the car every time to check if it's legit?' You were the first one across after that." Perhaps it only seemed longer because they kept stopping to talk or because neither of them had thought to bring a way to tell time--they hadn't had cell phones in middle school, and Tristan did so like to keep with tradition. "And like, when we got to the other side, oh my god, it sucked! It absolutely sucked because there was nothing there. Nothing at all, just more trees! We were so bummed...but like, Eileen was all convinced it could still be cool...and you know, it was. It was our spot. Nobody else knew about it." They had gone there every weekend since its discovery that summer day in seventh grade, "Remember that time we brought a picnic? It was so gross. The water bottle leaked all over the sandwiches! You still ate them though, Eileen did too...god, y'all were so gross together." They had been 'gross' together, Eileen had never been one to say 'no' to trying anything. Rolling in mud puddles, cutting off all her hair, jumping off the dock in January...that was until the day she did start saying no. "I guess she decided she doesn't like us anymore." They both stopped in their walk, deciding that wasn't a bridge they wanted to go over.