Puck Me, One More Time
And now, our eyes found each other in the silence that followed … the specific silence of a moment that has happened and cannot be un-happened, sitting in the air between two people who are both still processing what it means.
I broke it first.
"Liam."
I called out his name just like that. I said it the way you said something when you needed to say something and hadn't yet found anything else.
And then the flowers came.
I had not been expecting exactly that either …. white petals, drifting down from somewhere above us, the kind of detail that the palace garden had apparently been prepared for in ways I had not known about. They fell slowly, settling on our shoulders, on the ground around us,