I wasn’t sure how long we stood there, staring at each other, everyone else smiling and laughing, but it felt like a lifetime. It felt like years of regret, like decades of longing, like centuries of wrong decisions and missed opportunities and fucked-up timing. It felt like everything we wanted being just out of reach, and both of us realizing at the same time that we were fools for ever thinking we could run fast enough to catch it.
