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Just for the summer.”
“We’ve done stranger things.” “Yes,” she said. “Yes, we have.”
“Why not forgive? In a world where you can choose anger or empathy, always choose empathy, Justin. I don’t know what it was like to be her.
“I don’t really care if it’s weird. I’m just glad it’s happening. And not because I want to break a curse either.”
Then I checked 10.
“I didn’t get to say hi to you,”
Just for the summer.
I was in an uncomfortable hotel bed at a water park. My mom went to prison today and I officially took custody of my three siblings. And I still smiled myself to sleep.
“I made you lunch. Wanted to surprise you,”
“I don’t care. I want to see you.”
“You are the only thing in my life making me happy right now. And I’m not the least bit afraid to tell you that.”
Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help.
“And lean on your friends. It helps.”
It was easier to pretend to be angry and tough than to admit to being devastated and heartbroken.
“Because you needed me,” he said simply. “I will always come when you call.”
And for the first time maybe ever, I felt like I belonged somewhere.
“I paddled on the unicorn floatie.”
“All I ever think about is you.”
Love.
“Justin, I like you more than I’ve ever liked anyone. And it scares me.”
“Sometimes I feel like the seasons could come and go and come and go, a hundred years could pass, a thousand, the ground could collapse under us,
this house could crumble and go back to the earth, and we would still be standing here frozen in time, because every second I’m with you is eternal. I’ve never felt anything like it.”
“I know. I’m gonna anyway.”
“You’re not asking too much,” he said. “You were just asking the wrong person. Ask me instead.”

