In her expression was something I’d never dared allow myself to recognize before. Like she was imagining what it might be like if this was our truth. If we did this every night, and I didn’t have a lifetime of garbage strewn between us. They were obstacles that I should heed. What should have me diverging. Changing course. But I didn’t think there was a goddamn thing in this world that could keep me from her right then.
