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“Not sure.” She looks at the sky as if the answer will fall from it. “I may have been about nine or so?”
I look at her, the love for me so evident in her eyes, and before I can catch the words, I’m blurting out, “Marry me.”
Her eyes are wide and unblinking as she stammers out “What?” I think as a way to give me an out. She probably thinks the nostalgia is messing with my head, but the truth is I had never seen things clearer, and I had a young Ava Remington to thank for it.
“I love you. I want to be married to you, Ava. Will you marry me?”
She looks back at the writing, drawing her fingertip over the letters before her watery eyes drift back to me. “Yes! Yes, of course I’ll marry you.”
Ava burrowed her way into my heart almost twenty years ago, a girl that used to follow me around like my shadow when we were kids.
Ava Remington, my best friend’s sister, the one woman I should have stayed away from.
But I’m glad I didn’t, because she ended up being my forever.
Maybe little Ava Remington had it right all along.
THE END
