Were she to slip into a Groundhog Day dream state, this is the day she would choose to live over and over and over again. These were the memories—painful though they were—that she never, ever wanted to forget. She was always going to jump into this lake, no matter how dark or dangerous it might turn out to be; she was too intrigued by its shimmering surface to even consider turning away. There was no world in which she wouldn’t dive headfirst in love with Rory Hughes. This was the only way.
