I heard you say, ‘I love you,’ and, somehow, I could breathe again. Barely, like I was trying to suck oxygen out of bubbles under the ocean, but I could. The world came back, and I saw your face. I heard you say it again. ‘I love you, Bryce.' That's all I remember, until I woke up with you sleeping on my thigh in this hospital bed. At the darkest, most petrifying moment of my life, you were there. You have always been there.
