“I love you,” said Shane. “Dramatically, violently, and forever.”
She kissed the top of his head, smiling brighter than the sun.
“I’ve always loved you,” he whispered.
“What a coincidence,” she whispered back. “I’ve always loved you,
too.”
Look at all the time we lost! How could you
leave me? That morning, when I woke up and you…you weren’t there. I
had to teach myself how to breathe again, in a world without you in it. Do
you get that?”