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I clear h I want to "Well…you’re off to a good start So there’s that"

He laughs I feel so aard, I don’t knohat to do with myself, so I pretend to sneeze He doesn’t even say bless you He just smiles at me, like he knows it was a fake sneeze

"Stop it," I say "You’re staring at me"

"That’s the point, Charlie Look into a toward my side of the car

When we’re both buckled in, Silas turns toto a letter you wrote, the first tio there Where did you find that letter? I thought I hid it"

"Not well enough" Silas grins

I think I like flirty Silas Even if we forget everything again too somewhere fun," I say "I can’t remember the last time I had fun"

We both start laughing at the same time I like hihs too ht now, and he’s still always sh when I should be worrying

"Okay," he says, glancing at o to that place in the letter where I did that thing withto Charlie--but as soon as the words are out of his mouth, my hand reaches across the space between us and I slap his arrabs my hand before I can pull away and holds it to his chest This too feels like sos to theuy

It ainst him like this, even if it’s justaway fro this," he says "That kind of defies the point"

He’s right I reach over and grab his hand "This isin love with you," I tell him "Deep, soul love"

"I wonder if you’re less ridiculous when you have your memory"

I turn on the radio withhim smile It doesn’t take much to et his lips to curve all the way up, I have to be extra sassy His lips are fully curved now as he pulls into traffic and I a like we know each other even though our conscious minds don’t know each other Why is that?

I reach for the backpack, to search for the answer in their letters or journals