My chest felt tight. He didn’t have to explain what it was. It was the thing I had been trying to find my entire life. It had been the thing that always eluded me. The thing that followed every guy I ever kissed. I was always the girl before the happily ever after. I was the person you stopped at for a little while for shelter. I wasn’t the person you stayed with. I wasn’t that person to anyone— Or at least, I thought.
