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by Shelia Grace


  “We don’t have to tell anyone.”

  I bit my lip.

  “That’s a big secret.”

  “Not a secret. A postponement.”

  “So when do we tell them?”

  “Three years?”

  I cracked up.

  “At my graduation?”

  I studied him seriously.

  “You’re going to finish your doctorate, aren’t you? I mean, at some point. And we’re going to go see your dad, right?”

  He laughed and reached forward to smooth my brow.

  “Alex, relax. We don’t have to have all the answers today.”

  His features turned serious, and he looked up at the sky.

  “I kept thinking that all these other things mattered. I kept looking for what was wrong about us.”

  “Yeah. Me, too,” I admitted.

  “Then you know what I realized?”

  I shook my head.

  “That I love you, and as long as you know that, nothing else matters.”

  I felt my eyes fill with tears. I wasn’t going to lose him. This wasn’t our last moment. Looking around at the blooms on the trees, the budding flowers, I thought about how I had always secretly hated spring because it had felt like a big obstacle to summer. Now, though, it was like I was seeing everything around me with new appreciation. I felt weightless … I felt happy, which scared me. Like someone was about to show up and take it all away. I put my hands on his chest and studied Ryan’s perfect features.

  “I wasn’t joking last night. Not one of my favorite books or movies has a happy ending. It’s stupid … but I always kind of thought it was a bad omen for my life. Like happily ever after was just some kind of cruel joke.”

  Ryan pulled me to him and kissed my forehead.

  “But this isn’t a happy ending,” he said softly. “It’s the beginning.”

  I smiled.

  Not happily ever after.

  The beginning.

  Table of Contents

  Dedicated to the two people who know who I am.TABLE OF CONTENTSChapter 1Chapter 2

  TABLE OF CONTENTSChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4

  Chapter 1Alex

  Chapter 2Ryan

  Chapter 3Alex

  Chapter 4Ryan

  Chapter 5Alex

  Chapter 6Ryan

  Chapter 7Alex

  Chapter 8Ryan

  Chapter 9Alex

  Chapter 10Ryan

  Chapter 11Alex

  Chapter 12Ryan

  Chapter 13Alex

  Chapter 14Ryan

  Chapter 15Alex

  Chapter 16Ryan

  Chapter 17Alex

  Chapter 18Ryan

  Chapter 19Alex

  Chapter 20Ryan

  Chapter 21Alex

  Chapter 22Ryan

  Chapter 23Alex

  Chapter 24Ryan

  Chapter 25Alex

  Chapter 26Ryan

  Chapter 27Alex

  Chapter 28Ryan

  Chapter 29Alex

  Chapter 30Ryan

  Chapter 31Alex

  Chapter 32Ryan

  Chapter 33Alex

  Chapter 34Ryan

  Chapter 35Alex

  Chapter 36Ryan

  Chapter 37Alex

 

 

 


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