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“Me too!” Lucy pulled at my pants leg.
Elijah bent down and scooped her up. “You too.”
Her little arms went around Elijah and me and honestly, this moment was the best ever. “All together again,” Lucy said cheerily, and I laughed, getting all choked up in the feelings that were so good they’d make anyone cry.
There was a lot of crying that night.
As I stared up at Elijah’s stubbled chin, and then his dark eyes came into view and softened as he smiled at Lucy, everything was good again. Nothing was ever wrong with us to begin with. Elijah did something I wished I had the nerve to do—talk back. I promised myself on the walk over there that I’d learn to stop letting people have control over how I felt about myself. I knew it would take time. Good thing I had Elijah around. I was suddenly more than okay with him standing up for me, I was so tired of doing everything by myself.
Without words, he said every day with his actions, “I got you,” and my brain was finally catching up to my heart. I believed in him wholly.
“We watching a movie?” he asked Lucy.
“Yes!”
“One,” I told them. “Then we have to go to bed.”
“Yay!”
