Troy closed his shift and stopped at Sadie's favorite restaurant on his way home. If anyone told him that he would be taking public transit to and from a dead-end job when he was a teen, he would have laughed at them, but that is where his life ended up, and it was nothing like he thought it would be.
Back at home, he had a beautiful and strong wife, and they were expecting their first child after years of trying. Sadie had gotten on birth control the moment they left Pan, and although she stopped taking it when they had gotten back together, it took a long time for her body to carry a pregnancy to term. Their doctor told them that the prolonged birth control use had done damage to her fertility. They thought they might never be able to conceive, but they were surprised, just as they had given up hope.
