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Grief. Pain. Love. It all floods me at once, preventing me from catching my breath.
“I’ve always been willing to risk a lot of things for you.” His words are a knife to my heart.
“So there’s an infinity of memories within me, and an infinity of memories within you. But the infinity between us? It’s even grander.”
I’m the queen of pretending everything’s fine.
The little pocket of feelings in my chest has expanded to take over all of me, body, mind, and soul. He’s my person. There’s no doubt about it.
the beauty of a real friendship is that no matter how much time passes, you’ll still be able to catch up on what you missed and pick up where you left off.
“They weren’t you, V. I didn’t realize it before, but once I was with them, I expected their hair to smell like your strawberry shampoo and their hugs to feel like yours and their laughter to sound like yours. I was looking for you in every girl I met.” His thumb brushes against my parted lips. “But there’s no other you, Violet. You’re it for me.”
“Don’t waste your time being angry when you could be in love.”
“There’s nothing I want more than to be your forever, but not at the cost of feeling your anger all my life.”
I want Will. With his long nose and soft eyes. With his strong shoulders and hair wet from the ocean water. With his large hands and warm smile. With his shirt off and sand between his toes. But not only that. I want him with winter boots on and a hat on his head. I want to see him at Halloween and at Christmas and at Easter too. I don’t want my Will of summer. I want my Will of forever.
She’s in every place I visit, in all the love songs I listen to. She’s in the chocolate-cherry ice cream I eat and the 2000s movies I watch and the Jeep I still drive and the thunderstorms outside my window and the quotes I read about love and pain and beauty and heartache. She’s ruined summer for me.
It’s not always easy to be with the one you love. I realize it now. You need to work for it. But once you do, you can spend every day of your life feeling the way I’m feeling right now. Infinite.
