The moment happened at the carousel.
Which felt ridiculous, honestly.
If someone had told me the night I first met Landon Baxter that one day a carousel would be involved in one of the most important moments of my life, I would have laughed directly in their face.
But life, apparently, is deeply committed to irony.
It had been my idea.
We were passing it when I stopped dead in my tracks.
“Oh my God.”
Landon looked at me.
“What?”
I pointed.
“I haven’t been on a carousel in years.”
He blinked once.
Then twice.
Then looked at the carousel.
Then back at me.
“You want to ride the carousel?”
“Yes.”
He stared.
I narrowed my eyes.
“Don’t be weird.”
“I’m not being weird.”
“You’re absolutely being weird.”
He laughed.
“I just think this is the least cool thing anyone has ever a
