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“You’re not assuming anything.” I pull him down to kiss me. “I’m all in too. It’s you and me.”
“But in case it needs to be said out loud… Yes, Hallie Hart, you are my girlfriend. Though, you should know, there’s a good chance I’ll be changing both that title and that last name one day.”
Ahhhhhh
Six years ago, even after things fell apart between us, I bought this house for her.
My heart
It’s everything she told me she wanted, and there was a part of me that hoped if both it and I were here waiting for her, she’d somehow find her way home.
Yup that will do it
“When I got to training camp in Chicago, they asked me if I wanted to keep eighty-three, but I decided it was time to change it to my actual favorite day.”
I KNEW IT… crying
My birthday. March eighth. Thirty-eight. He’s been wearing my birthdate on his jersey for six years and I had no idea.
“I think we both know it’s a little deeper than that, even if we’re still pretending it’s one of those unspoken things.” He turns to press a quick kiss to my lips. “And I have for fifteen years, Hal. You’ve had me hooked since the day you became the girl next door.”
Over my shoulder, I watch his parents’ bedroom slowly creak open, but the woman who exits isn’t Mrs. DeLuca. “Mom?”
I KNEW IT!!!!
“But it shouldn’t be. It should be said as much as possible. Because I love you, Rio. I have loved you since we were children, and I will love you until we’re old and gray. But if you didn’t already know that, then I’ve been doing something wrong.”
We are rare. What we have is rare and I’m going to spend the rest of my life protecting it.
“I love you, Hallie Hart. Spoken or unspoken, I’ve always loved you.”
“This is the song I was listening to in the locker room right before I went out to play the game where I saw you for the first time again.”
“This is the song I played in my house that first day you came over for a design meeting. It was the first time you ever stepped foot inside that house, actually.”
“This is the song you fell asleep to in my car the first night I drove you home from work.”
“Moana?”
“The night you came over to help me babysit,” I explain. “The first night it felt like maybe we could be us again.”
“The song that was playing the night you asked me to keep driving. It was the night we kissed...
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“This is the song you played over the speaker system in the house. It was the first time I heard you voluntarily...
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“This is the song we danced to in the kitchen when we decided to give us another chance.”
“They’re all our important moments.”
“Do you remember why you said you kept track of those songs?”
“Something about when I want to relive a moment, I can rewind it back and start from the beginning.”
“Exactly. I want to rewind all of it, Hallie. I want to remember everything. You made sure we could remember our first years together, so I...
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“Actually.” I hover my thumb over the last song on the list. “You weren’t there for this one.”
“What happened while you were listening to this song?”
“This is the song I was listening to when I signed my contract extension with the Chicago Raptors.”
Stop im crying
“Playing for Chicago feels like I’m playing for my hometown because it is my home now. You’re my home. Being loved by you for the rest of my life is the only dream of mine that’s never wavered. There’s no doubt in my mind that I’m already exactly where I want to be.”
Damn you rio
“Our home.” Sliding my palms up her thighs, I pull her tighter against me. “I thought you would’ve realized it the first time you came over. Hallie, the irony of hiring you to design the house is that you’re the person I bought it for.”
Rio stop making me cry
“The house has always been yours, Hallie. Ours. It was just waiting for you to come make it a home.”
Ugh my heart can't take it anymore
She’s everything I’ve ever wanted, everything I’ve been looking for. Everything I was so desperate to find because I had already found her once and knew she was missing from my life.
Then it’s the ten of us. How it was always supposed to be.
Iove this found family… so sad its ending
“Friends are the family you choose, and I’ve got to say, I’ve got the best family a guy could ask for.”
I’ll speak for all ten of us when I say, there’s nowhere else we’d rather be.
