After dinner, I helped Kennedy with the dishes. She kept trying to get me to sit down, but I’d much rather help out. This is the first time in weeks I’ve felt normal, though I’m still not entirely sure what normal is but I think this is it.
When the dishes were done, we sat around the living room talking some more until it started getting late. One by one we said goodbye to our family, exchanging more hugs and promises to do this again soon, which I am all for. Once everyone was out the door, Chris shut the door behind them and leaned against it facing me with a relaxed smile on his face.
“What?” I ask, mimicking his smile.
“It’s just the first time in a while I’ve seen you that happy and relaxed. I was happy to see you like that again,” he says walking over to me, wrapping me up in hi
