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I start to laugh. Trev shakes his head. “She had to be crazy. After she was mean to you and I caught her, I had no interest in her, no matter how big her boobs had gotten,” he says with a frown.
“Oh my God, but she still hung out with Pook all she could,” I say.
“And got herself nice and comfortable around her. Pook wouldn’t tell me, but Cliff did. That fight they got into was because Lauren made some comments about you, thinking Brooke wasn’t going to react.
“From what he said, she threatened to do something to you and Pook, laying hands like Jesus.” He chuckles. “But no one believed Lauren because, come on, this was Pook, she didn’t fight anyone.”
“Not like me. I would have gotten into so much trouble for what Pook did to her,” I say through my laughter and shake my head.
“Exactly,” he drawls. “She was always looking out for us and intercepting our bullshit.”
I wipe a tear. “God, I miss her.”
“I know, darlin’. I know. I do too.”
We fall silent for the rest of our walk. I realize after a while that we’re heading back toward the Eiffel Tower. It’s a nice warm night and the sky is clear.
You can almost feel the romance in the air. I imagine how my sister would have felt as she walked these streets engaged to her Monroe. Cliff proposing to her here would have been perfect.
I wish she could have had that. Maybe there’s some parallel universe where she’s living out that version of her life. I hope there is because she deserved it.
“Do you believe in parallel universes?”
“Say what now?” Trev replies as if I’ve pulled him from his thoughts.
“Do you believe we’re living another life on some other plane? Like if we don’t get it right here, we’re there making better decisions or experiencing a better version of this life.”
He shrugs. “I believe anything is possible. The one thing I know for sure is that I want to be in whatever life or universe where I get to spend my life with you.”
“Aw, Trev, I want that too.”
He leads the way to the Eiffel Tower and produces tickets for us to go up. I look at him with a questioning gaze. I thought we were saving this for last. We still have a week here.
He leans in to peck my lips. “You’ll understand once we get to the top,” he says against my mouth.
I smile and bounce on my toes beside him. My belly fills with butterflies and my heart feels so full it could burst right from my chest. My anticipation goes through the roof.
I think I hold my breath the entire ride up. When we exit, the wind is a little brisk. Trevor tugs me into his embrace and looks down into my eyes.
“I wanted to save this for last for a reason,” he says.
He reaches into his pocket as a guy with a handful of roses moves closer to us. I take my eyes off Trevor as the guy stops beside us. I bounce my gaze back and forth between them.
“Oh, right, these are for you,” Trev says with a nervous laugh.
He takes the roses from the man and hands them over to me. I take them and bring them to my nose, inhaling deeply. A smile spreads across my face.
“I thought long and hard about this one. We’d get in trouble trying to toss something from up here and I didn’t get the feeling that anything we left would stand the test of time, so I thought we needed to change the rules just this once.
“I took that lock of hair Nanna gave you and had it placed in this locket. You get one half and I get the other.” He holds up the locket for me to see.
“Look, if you open this side, there’s a picture of the three of us and if you open the other side, there’s the lock of hair. I thought… well, I thought we could make a promise to her.
“This doesn’t end here. Pook wanted us to live, love, and be happy. Right here, right now, we should promise her that, and as long as we wear these, she can live through us no matter where in the world we are,” he finishes and swallows, his eyes searching mine.
I cup his face and lift up on my toes to kiss his lips. “Thank you. This is perfect. You’re perfect. I love you so much and I love this. Thank you for being such a good friend to my sister, Trev. She would have loved this.”
He wraps his arms around my waist and tugs me in close. “I’m not done. Pook originally wanted to travel Europe, not just Paris. Not everyone could afford to do a month here, another month there, and then a few weeks somewhere else.”
