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I’m trying to focus on this book, this cute little romance novel that Molly gave me before I quit my job. I want to read. I want the world around me to dissolve. I want to go numb, like I’ve been for years.
“Why does it feel like I’ve known you longer than just a summer?” I ask him. He chuckles. “Another life, I guess.” He shrugs. I smile and look down at the ground. He cups my face in his hands and lets his thumbs graze my cheeks. “I hope I know you in all my lives,” I whisper.
“You are enough,” he says. “You are more than enough. And if ever there’s an idiot who tells you differently, you should run in the other direction.”
And I know I’m only seventeen, but I know that I love this boy. I know that, one day, I might look back and realize it wasn’t the same kind of love that can stand the test of time. I don’t know what our future holds, but I know that, in this moment, this summer, at this lake, he is mine. He has my heart, and I don’t want it back.
“Like he can’t live without you.” I swallow. “Me either, come to think of it,” Jules says. “He’s different. He moves a little slower. Takes his time a little more.
“When you’re with the right one, honey, it doesn’t feel impressive. It just feels like it’s exactly how it’s supposed to be.”
“She reminded me that living isn’t just waiting to die.”
“In all my life, there has been one love that’s completely rocked me. And that was you. Our love was good, bad, and the absolute ugliest, and I’d do every second of it over again—every single moment—if it meant that I’d end up back here, with you, in this bed.”
A kiss that says nothing is certain, except for how we feel right here in this moment.
He’s a rope, and he might have some fray to him. There might be some knots along the way, but if I follow him, if I hang on, I know I’ll get back to shore.
