Summer Child
YOU.
But what if I don’t want space or casual things anymore? Came the crestfallen little voice, the one the rational side tried to hiss into silence. What if this is what I’ve been waiting for all along?
Realizing she’d been silent just a beat too long, she shook herself out of those warring thoughts and gave him a nod. “Right. Monday,” she echoed casually, lolling her head back onto his shoulder and allowing herself to close off just a bit, feeling the walls go up some, already poised and ready to protect her with all their might. The rational side was right. Loss was too big a possibility, in the many ways it could take form. Casual was best, and that’s surely where they were headed once
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