Something had changed last night, for me at least, like I’d fallen in love all over again or something I couldn’t place. I don’t know if it was the uncertainty of Ma’s health or the reappearance of my estranged mother or the intimacy of what we’d done last night, but something was different. I needed to be near Travis. I needed him close, and by the way he hugged me and kissed me oh so softly before we left for the hospital, I figured he felt the same.
