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"I’et distant on ht about what histhat he’d run away if I talked about et my attention

I took a deep breath and looked at him

"Ryan, I’ve heard the words ‘I love you’ before, and every ti more than words I need more time to know that I can rely on you when you tell me you love me I haven’t had the best of luck in relationships"

"Me neither," he interjected

"Then why are we rushing it?"

Ryan stared down at his feet, rubbing his sneaker over the knot in the wooden plank He pursed his lips and shrugged

"I don’t know," he et on with the next chapter oflike a noet to me"

I kneas lonely and terribly isolated by this sudden, overwhel in loneliness for led unco my words "I need to know that it’s truly me that you want, and not just the idea of a life with soaze back to me He stared at my face for asohed lightly, like I was being silly again "You are the reason I’s! I just want to be sure that we are heading in the saht about several different directions we could actually head to I didn’t want to assume

"Well, since you’ve uess I don’t need to feel frightened to bring it up"

"No, you don’t," he confirently

"Children?"