He doesn’t want to step out of the present, this present. Because once he does, there will be college applications and college acceptances (just one will do) and the last of everything (last class, last party, last night, last day, last goodbye), and then the world will change forever, and he will go to college and eventually become an adult. That is not what he wants. He does not want those complications, that change. Not now.

Are We There Yet?