Tate was right. And so was Tom. Because giving his sister heart break. Considering Trip- Tate didn’t actually break her heart, could it really be called that? Still. The idea of his sister having to feel such pain over her first love and struggling to deal with it made Sawyer, for the first time in nine months, glad that she was gone and didn’t ever have to feel the kind of pain he had felt more than once. On more occasions, it had been rejection and not feelings he had to let go of. Which it also was. Yet he kept writing. For more than just that pain, for more than what cannot be.
“Yeah.” Raina nodded. Agreeing with her brother. “I like it. Talking about what was and what could be. We are their future now. I miss them sure and I feel… things I hate. But we should let ourselves have this.
