Seeing her cry like this, pained me. I wanted to be mad at her, but I couldn’t hold on to that kind of energy when I saw the anguish in her eyes that matched the agony in my heart. I just wanted to love her through it. I dragged her into me. She buried her head into my chest, and I rested my chin on the top of her head. I felt the burn in my eyes before tears slowly trickled down my cheeks. Fuck. I thought we could somehow magically spend this trip avoiding the painful shit. Or better yet, avoiding the truth. We still had unresolved things that required the hard conversations to take place if
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