How I Met My Wife.
He hugs me.
A real one. The kind of hug that a man gives a woman when the man is in love with the woman, and the man has decided to stop pretending he is not, and the woman has decided to stop pretending she is not, and the two of them are standing in a room in a small Silverlake apartment in a way that is the entire world. The kind of hug that a man gives a woman when the man is scared, and the woman is scared, and they are both scared, and they are both standing in the scared together.
His arms are around me. His chin is on the top of my head. His hoodie smells like the way Aiden smells, which is cedar and hospital soap and the smell of a man who is in love with a woman and is not going to