“Everything that feels as amazing as love does?” Dad said, shaking his head. “It comes with risk, Zach. So yeah, if you’re not willing to take some risks, to hang off the ledge with that girl, then don’t go. But if you are, and if she is — which, judging by her being brave enough to come here and ask you to join her at the game, she is — then, who knows.” He clapped my shoulder and squeezed it hard. “Just might be something amazing, something worth fighting for. But you won’t know if you don’t trust it. You won’t know if you don’t try.”
