“Oh. Now you’re the one bringing us down,” Luke replied quietly. My voice went high and alarmed when getting bad news while his went low and hurt.
“I meant we shouldn’t start over,” I amended quickly. “Because then we’ll just freak out when we get to this part again. I mean, I will.”
If you take everything away, you start back at zero. Taking away all the bad and everything else with it means taking away the progress too, the lessons we learned.
“No, I will too,” Luke agreed. “I’ll just try to be cool about it, but I’ll still be worrying.”
“So yeah. It happened. We should learn from it and move on. Let’s just be the best us we can be.” Being a relationship expert was a blessing and a curse. I had infinite wisdom, but I sounded really cheesy. “But in a way that doesn’t sound like a motivational speech some has-been delivers to never-wases at a hotel by the airport.”
I could practically hear Luke thinking that through. “I think I agree?” he voiced after a moment.
I laughed. I love him so much. I had to tell him. “I love you.”
He apparently had to tell me too, so we both said it at the same time.
I smiled at us being in sync. Mind over matter. Or something. Something over something else. If you thought there was a problem, that could create a problem even when there wasn’t one. But if there was a problem and you didn’t treat it like one, sometimes you could work it out without it hurting anything.
“Don’t know if we’re back on the same page or we always were and we just couldn’t see it,” I told Luke.
“Both, I think,” my Genius decided.
“Not sure that’s possible,” I said lightly. “But yeah, both.” We didn’t have to always think and feel the same things. That would be boring. Yet we were such different people, so being in agreement on the big things was awesome. “And sometimes we did go to different pages.”
“And that was the moment we noticed we were off and freaked out,” Luke filled in. “Because maybe we just didn’t realize that we’d find our way back to each other eventually.”
Yeah. But things would be okay. We knew now. We would always find our way back to each other.
