Resolution Begins

Today's writing starts the reconciliation of Anna and Andrew. They're finding their way to being together in the real world.
And that begins the resolution of the tensions of the book. The protagonists are talking to each other, rather than past each other.
It took some doing to get them to this point. I try to think about the hard conversations I would have had to have with my husband if we had been in similar circumstances. These two have a history that's fraught with complications. They lust after each other, sure. But that's not enough to build a solid foundation on, regardless of what the rom-coms like to portray.
In this case, there have been past mistakes that needed to be resolved. There were conversations that had happened that needed to be rewound or unwound, to get to the real truth behind the quips.
And the two protagonists had to see each other as the fully fledged people they are now, versus the children they had been.
They've had those hard conversations now. They've acknowledged their past pain. And they've started to figure out what the future would bring and the challenges they will face to make it reality.
Though there's one more complication before we have our happy ending.