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I don’t answer her right away I think about her questions How all along, we’ve been assuht The Shriht her mother was involved For a while, I wanted to accuse Charlie’s father Butto do with anyone else and everything to do with us
We reachThan ere two days ago Than ere last week
"Let’s go through the back door in case ht now is for theht The back door won’t take us past my father’s study
It’s unlocked, so I rab her hand and rush her through the house, up the stairwell, and to my bedroom By the ti heavily She laughs and falls onto my bed "That was fun," she says "I bet we’ve done that before"
She sits up and brushes the hair out of her eyes, sh eyes that are seeing it again for the first ti in ht at the hotel when she fell asleep into be able to remember what it was like to love her God, I want that back Why did we ever break up? Why did we let everything that happened between our fa in, I’d almost believe ere soul mates before we let it all fall apart Why did we think we could intervene with fate?
I pause
When she looks aton in e of the bed and tilts her head "Do you re?"
I sit in the desk chair and roll toward her I take both of her hands in ht have a theory"
She sits up straighter "What kind of theory?"
I’ fro around in ht…ere at the hotel?"
She nods, encouraging hts I had before we fell asleep was hohile you were --I didn’t feel whole But when I found you, it was the first time I felt like Silas Nash Up until that point, I didn’t feel like anyone And I reht before I fell asleep that I would never allow us to drift apart again So I was thinking…" I release her hands and stand up I pace the room a couple of times until she stands up, too I shouldn’t be embarrassed to say this next part out loud, but I a in the whole world right now
I rub the nerves out of the back of my neck while I lock eyes with her "Charlie? What if…e broke up…we screith destiny?"
I wait for her to laugh, but instead, a rush of chills covers her arms She makes to rub them away as she slowly takes a seat back down on the bed "That’s ridiculous," she mutters But there’s no conviction in her words, which means