I walked toward her.
“Hey,” I said softly.
She looked up, startled.
“Hi…”
“Mind if I sit?”
She shrugged slightly. “Okay.”
I sat down across from her.
“What are you reading?”
She glanced down. “Nothing important.”
I nodded gently. “Those are usually the best ones.”
A tiny smile appeared on her face.
And just like that, something began to grow again.
It seemed Lily’s secret promise to herself had been preparing me for life after she was gone… without ever letting me realize she had already accepted that possibility.
And for the first time since losing her, I wasn’t trapped inside the silence anymore.
I was moving forward.
And somehow, that felt exactly like what Lily had wanted all along.
