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Her faint brows rose "So we are on Jordan’s trip?"

"Well, kind of I did a lot of tweaking to his plans but, yeah,breath and looked out over the park "I always thought he hatedto be his wingain…ere broken up…"

I shrugged "I think he feels worse about that than I do, if that’s possible"

She turned to"Why do you feel bad about it? We were broken up You went out on a date with so"

I shifted, suddenly feeling uncoe the subject and opened mywe should talk about We couldn’t avoid the subject of that dark ti," I said

She watchedchildren were launching toy sailboats "We both made a lot of mistakes," ca myself to continue on when I just wanted to shut this down "I was angry I went out on that date because I was just so pissed off at you So clearly, for the wrong reasons"

"I did stupid things because I was angry, too I shouldn’t have broken up with you I just--" She sucked in a breath suddenly, and I could tell she was getting emotional but I didn’t stop it This needed to come out and I had no idea how I knew that Instinct,and it ave in…At the ti back, after everything, it was trivial bullshit that we could have worked out if we’d kept level heads and just talked"

I reached for her hand, closed it inside uess we aren’t coht?"

I raised her hand to my mouth and kissed it "What’s important is that we can learn from them and also move past them"

She looked away and I saw her visibly s Her hand tightened around mine "So you don’t think it’s too late?"