Marry my best friend
“You’re magic, you know that?”
She tilted her head. “Magic?”
“Yeah,” I said quietly. “You always know how to pull me out of a bad headspace. Even when I don’t realize I need it.”
She smiled, then bumped my knee with hers. “That’s what best friends are for, right?”
I looked at her a beat too long. Best friends, she said.
But the way my chest tightened… it was something else.
I didn’t say it out loud, but in that moment, I knew: