✽ Mandy ✽
I floated through the morning like I had swallowed sunlight. It wasn’t loud happiness. It was the quiet kind that made everything feel softer. I kept thinking about Valentine’s Day and everything Jason had done for me. For us. The food, the candles, the way he looked at me like I was the only thing that mattered. I kept thinking about the gifts and how he had held them like they meant something, even if his face didn’t show it the way other people’s did.
I was falling in love.
The thought hit me so hard, it almost scared me. I didn’t say it out loud. I just let it sit inside my chest and warm me from the inside. Jason and I had been together in this strange, quiet way for a while now, but Valentine’s Day had changed something. It had made it real. By the time I got to Clover
