You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

Everyone had a forever.

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

It was just perfect, just right all at once.