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“I couldn’t have done any of this without you,” I whisper and lean down to kiss her lips “And I’ to keep yourself incredibly busy at the galleries while I’one”

“That’s the plan” She smiles “And you’ll be back in time to celebrate Christmas with me”

“You bet your sweet ass, I will”

“We’ll try to find a way to talk every day?” she asks “Even if it’s just a short e”

I pull her closer tohello and sending you a song”

When I was in training, there were times I’d have to be away fros every day It was a way for her to knoas thinking about her

“A song every day? For six ht?” She snorts “That’s, like…” She pauses, and I already know the answer to the question she’s trying to calculate in her head

“One hundred and eighty songs” I sle day will go by without you knowing that I’ kiss to her lips “NASA et that”Surprising October

AvaLuke: Ace, I hope you have a fan-fucking-tastic ti about you always Missing you like crazy Loving you : “Dream A Little Dream of Me,” The Mae and daily song on the secure platform that’s allowed us to stay in contact over the past fourto the Spotify playlist I’ve been using to collect all the tracks he’s sent me

I turn up the volume on my laptop and listen

It starts out soft Slow Entrancing, even And by the ti builds and the lyrics fill my head, tears stream down my cheeks They’re happy They’re sad They’re bittersweet

God, I miss him

Four Whole Months

That’s how longspace

One hundred and twenty days without him here with me

To say it’s hard is an understate okay for the first month or so, but these last two months have hit me kind of hard I feel tired all the das And I’ve resorted to eating s a little too much

I’ the galleries, but when I coht to an e

Thankfully, though,here any minute to spend the ith me in Houston Their boisterous and always fun presence will be a much-needed distraction

Once the song ends, I let it roll over to the beginning of the playlist, and one by one, all of Luke’s songs start to fill the quiet of our living room