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“I still remember picking that flower for you. It was bright like the sun, and the sun was bright like you.”
“Open up my Spotify,” he says, gesturing at his phone. “I made you a playlist.”
“Kissing you feels like catching the sun,”
“Coming!”
“Yeah. We heard.”
I guess that’s what happens when you spend years conditioning yourself to run away from emotional connection and intimacy. You find it’s not a switch you can just flip back on when the longing hits. Luckily, Max is patient.
“I’m not an expert bookbinder like you, Sunny. But I tried.”
“It’s our story.”
We’re sitting beside a beautiful white horse, watching the sky above us sparkle with pretty green lights. “The End” is scribbled in loopy letters underneath
“Oh, Ella.” She stops in place, her hand shooting to her mouth to hold in the cry. “My God…” “Mom,” I murmur. For as distant as we’ve been over the past few years, somehow it feels like there is no distance at all. Only the few feet
It was McKay. McKay Manning attacked me in a drunken rage and let me fall to a presumed death. He could have caught me, grabbed me, pulled me back. But all he did was watch. He knew that a dead person was a silent person, and his secret would be safe.
“I found you, you know,” he says, curling his palm behind my neck and pulling our foreheads together. “I found you at the bottom of that cliff. Me, Brynn, and Kai. We thought you were dead. I thought I’d never see these eyes again. Never get to touch you, hold you… It killed me.”
I never wanted to be conquered, overthrown, another victim of love. But I fell anyway, despite everything I knew. I fell for him. I fell head over heels
it’s a copy of The House at Pooh Corner. Max brought me one of my favorite books.
Home.
If you need a reminder, I can do that.”
want to say that he grounds me, heals me, makes me feel like surviving that fall wasn’t just a lucky blip. But I
Relief. Reprieve. Completion.
“Hey, Piglet.”
Jonah sits beside me on the couch. Jonah. Sits.
“Yeah, Piglet?”
“Nothing. I just wanted to be sure of you.”
