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A luht answer Different hoondered? Different froht I reo? Or different from the Tyler I’d fallen in love with, the one I’d seen just a few short weeks ago? The one I’d been desperately-hopelessly-achingly searching for?
"No," I whispered,on his I could’ve stayed like that forever, even if he had absolutely zero memory of me "You look the same as I remember," I finally said, because I couldn’t lie
I could never, ever lie to hiers closed over o "I’ot into me I think I’m just homesick, is all I" He didn’t finish
"It’s okay" I didn’t want hiet it IIt’s nice to know so I could convey all s "It’s nice," I ended lamely because it was all I could say
Tyler accepted h it wasn’t like before, when sparks flew and fireworks exploded, it was co was awas better than fireworks anyway Co fit like a sweater, and kept you war could kick fireworks’ ass any day of the week
He gave ain "I don’t know if it’s weird forthis up, but I miss Austin"
"It’s not weird, Tyler You’re allowed to miss your brother It would be weird if you didn’t" I let out a sigh and leaned ainst his shoulder
"I just wasn’t sureif" He did this shrug thing, and it was completely filled with all the words he didn’t want to say, and I knew exactly how he felt because I had just asinside
I let him off the hook "I know about them too--Austin and Cat"
"I didn’t realize"
I knoanted to tell hi him down and kiss him, full on the lips If only I could taste him, just one time And press myself to him
Instead I smiled a small, sad little smile
"They didn’t do it to hurt you," he said, exactly the way he’d said it a o, when he’d explained it to me the first time, and my eyes burned because he was so the same Tyler I reain, and then one , to let hih about Austin and Cat, and enough about our old lives with our old families This was our new life, and even if he never reet through it, and everything would be okay, I told ain
We stayed like that for hours, huddled side by side Sometimes he’d talk and sometimes I would, and sometimes we’d just stay silent But for the first ti, because this time, when the sun rose, there wouldn’t be the fa last