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She lifts her chin up at me. “I forgot you.” I try hard not to laugh. “That…is the most rom-com thing you’ve ever fucking said to me. Take it back.” She gapes. “I will not.” She hugs me tighter. I love being this close to her.
I love how he makes me feel normal. How my brain isn’t some vast deep filthy wasteland to him. In his eyes, I’m some kind of perfect.
“I love you,” I tell him. He’s my teammate. My sidekick. The person I want to tag in for every tough moment in my life. My very own Scott Summers.
I kiss her like I need her soul tangled with mine. She kisses back like it’s happened already for years.
We were best friends. She had all of me by then. I had most of her.
I smile. “I love you, Lil.” I wrap my arm around her shoulder. “I love you too, Loren Hale.” I feign surprise. “You love me? Holy shit.” She punches my arm playfully, and I hug her close
“Sometimes the person we think we’ll become is the person we already are, and the person we truly become is the person we least expect.”
I’m about to marry my best friend. If I repeat it too many times, I start crying.
I am flooded with thousands upon thousands of memories that contain Loren Hale. In each one, some part of our bodies touch. Our hands. Our legs. Our hearts. Subconsciously, he guides me to the rooftop where he waits.
Am I ready to marry the man who has my entire soul?
“You are our heroes, and today, we are grateful to celebrate your love and your life together.”
“If someone ever asks how long we’ve spent together, I’d say for as long as my mind stretches back. I can’t tell you the day that I fell in love with you because there wasn’t a single day that I didn’t.” My voice shakes with more joy than I’ve ever known. “You have the purest parts of my heart, and I’m certain that in every alternate universe, I’m always, always in love with you.”
“Because my superpower is the love that I have for you. It’s out of this world, extraordinary, incomprehensible kind of love. And no one and nothing on this earth comes close to it.” My heart is so full that I can hardly breathe.
Lily’s eyes say I love you. So many of them that my chest rises in sync with hers. Moffy in my arms, she inches closer to me and rests her cheek on my chest.
At twenty-five, I am in desperate love with a girl who desperately loves me back. There is nothing more that I want than to experience life with her.
Lily and I—we may have started our relationship as pretend. But for as long as I can remember, our love has always been real.
