When You Least Expect It

by Haley Cass

It’s endeared, she thinks, and she has no idea the last time anyone has found her endearing of all things.

“There’s nowhere else I’d rather be. How often do I have to tell you?” The certainty in her own voice is unmistakable.

But her slight embarrassment is so incredibly worth the amused smile that actually reaches Hannah’s eyes.

But mostly, she wishes that Hannah could look in the mirror every day and see that she shines as bright as the moon and has twice the gravitational pull.

Hannah is so very much like a sunset – with all of the layers that make her who she is, every single one of them different and absolutely beautiful, but sometimes concealing what else is in the sky – Caroline can’t quite read all of the emotions under that vulnerability.

Sometimes I might not be able to find the right words, but I feel them.”