We go to bed early and sleep late, sometimes staying in bed all day. We make love on every surface in the cabin, including up against all the walls. I’ve never been happier.
I promise myself that when Mal has to go back to work, I’ll call my sister. I’ll deal with “real” life, but not yet.
For the first time, I’m happy, whole, and completely at peace. I feel like I was wandering lost in a wilderness, but now I’ve been found. I want to live in the cabin in the woods forever.
Until the day Mal goes into town to restock supplies and everything falls to pieces.
I should’ve known something so beautiful was too good to last.
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Mal
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spot him the instant I step into the grocer, because nobody from here looks like that.
Nobody from anywhere looks like that.
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