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He’s careful with how he pulls me up, closing his other hand around my elbow to keep from yanking too hard on my wrist. It’s a move I taught him a long time ago, and one that’s necessary in order to make sure the delicate joint doesn’t slide out of place. It’s things like that, the details he’s remembered for all these years, that weaken the resolve I’ve put in place to keep our relationship platonic.
“Hey, you said you liked them, right? Why wouldn’t I do something that makes you happy?”
I shouldn’t have missed her as much as I did, but the week apart felt more like a month. And, admittedly, like a little part of me was missing the whole time. She’s only been back in my life for a matter of weeks, and yet she’s managed to brush the edges of my every thought.
“Thank you,” he says, his eyes holding mine. “Seriously. I needed this. I needed you.” My throat is so tight I’m rendered speechless. He makes these comments so lightly, tossing them out like he utters them all the time, but every one hits me with the impact of a sucker punch. Doesn’t he understand that he can’t talk like that? He can’t make me feel like I’m firmly ensconced in the center of his world when I’m supposed to stay on the periphery.
We both know what we want. What we need. The only question is whether we’re reckless enough to go after it.
Every day it hits me a little harder, sinks in a little more—I’d do anything, anywhere, at any time with her as long as it meant I got to have her near me.
She’s beaming up at me now, and I swear my heart doesn’t know what to do at the sight of it. I’m down so fucking bad.
I’ve always been aware of Willow—how she moves through a space, how she speaks, how she reacts—but it’s different now. The awareness is so much stronger, like there’s a string tethered between us. Like it’s tugging me to her.
“But just know that I’ll be here waiting, because I know exactly what I want—and it’s you.”
I don’t need to hide a single aspect of myself from him. He’s already seen it all. And yet he’s still here, looking at me like I’m the center of his universe.
