Cassandra pulled another handful of tissues from the box and moved to the balcony, where she stared at Orion rising higher in the night sky. She tried to remember if she had ever talked to Joshua about Orion and what it had meant to her and Ryan. She thought she might have and she vaguely remembered that it made him blush, as if caught in a memory. She had no idea that he could have felt so much, so strongly, for another person. It reminded her of the way she and Ryan had felt for each other, when there was just the two of them relying on notes and stolen moments spent together.
She looked at her watch. 11:47 p.m.
Ryan was still more than an hour away.
The first thing I want to tell you, is about the first time I realized I had fallen in love with you. And that would be the very first m
