He always told me to look strong, even if I didn't feel it, because sometimes, that's all you can do.
I was laughing and he was too, and there we were, tangled up together in the water and sunshine. In a good kind of way.
I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of water over rocks down below, cicadas rattling a chorus off in the distance. All sounds of the world carrying on like it always had. So...
