Chapter 35
CHAPTER 35
Theo
S he showed me everything.
She took me to Main Street and showed me where she walked into a mailbox and lost her first tooth. She showed me Yara’s doggy daycare, The Pup Around the Corner, and Alex’s restaurant across the street. She took me down Presley Road, the street where she had her first kiss and then instantly threw up from it because she was young and thought kissing was gross.
She took me to her childhood house and showed me the window she broke when she tried to sneak out. I saw every building her father built—which was a lot. We went to Alex’s restaurant for dinner, and I ate everything that sounded delicious—which was a lot. And Willow kept talking, and I listened to every single word—which were a lot .
I loved that, though.
I loved how she talked.
I loved how she walked.
I loved…her.
Holy shit…this oddball, silly woman who randomly showed up naked in my lake one night because she was howling at the moon was now sitting across from me talking about how explosive ants explode or some weird shit, and I was hopelessly, desperately, wholeheartedly in deep, sickening, maddening love with her.
I silently prayed to God that Willow Kingsley would forever give me all her words.
Every single word.
Every single syllable.
Because I loved her.
Pishit.