28. Plans - As a child, Anderson remembered that in hard times his mother would often say something along the lines of 'People make plans and God laughs'. He'd never really thought much of it, just something his mom liked to say when things weren't going her way in order to ease the tension. Despite them, Anderson had still made plans for his life. He'd planned to take his younger siblings out on their first halloween and how his older brothers would drag him out on his twenty first birthday to have his first official drink. There was more, like how he'd imagined his mother crying on his graduation day because hell, she worried he'd never make it. She would be the interrogator for all his dates while his father would look on with pride. They would be there at his wedding, and all of his brothers would argue about what to do for his bachelor party, the last night of freedom.
And then the fire happened, and all of those plans burned up with his family.
Life didn't stop though, and Anderson continued to outline how he'd learn to walk again and what it would take him to be accepted into an adequate college. He arranged to find a job and an apartment, organized how he would use a basketball scholarship to pay his way through school.
And then he'd planned to participate in a weekend game for a few extra bucks, and there he met Morgan Lansing.
Everything after that was Morgan, Morgan, Morgan.
He was the one Anderson had planned a life with. The wolf had imagined himself at twenty six, driving Morgan out to the same beach he'd taken him to on their first date, planned how he'd propose around the bonfire where they kissed with the ocean at their feet. Anderson had ideas of himself at thirty five buying a house to take his husband home to. There would have been a tire swing out front because Morgan had spoken often of having one when he'd been small, and every day Anderson would be able to wake up to that face. He'd planned how at forty three they would have two children and one pet of Morgan's choice. Anderson had planned on them having a life together. He'd shaped his dream' around Morgan, no longer his but theirs. And Anderson had loved him. He'd planned on loving him until the world burned.
But as his mother said, 'people make plans and God laughs'. Anderson would tell his own children this, along with the story of how he'd loved Morgan and lost.
He'd planned on forever.
But plans change.