Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

She moved closer to me, put her hands to my face, and kissed me softly on the lips. God, it felt so good. So perfect, so right... It felt so good, I nearly fell off the roof.

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

The days passed, as they do, and life went on.