- AQ.
So he’d confessed to me way back then.
My eyes stung a little.
Ethan looked at me with concern.
“It’s nothing, sweetle, Mommy just realized amething. Did your teacher assign any arts and crafts homework today?”
QA
I pretended to be nonchalant, chatting with Ethan like usual.
But as we talked, I grew more and more distracted.
I thought about calling Sarah to ask for advice, but decided this was something I needed
to figure out on my own.
Middle school, huh?
We were class president and vice president back then. Even though we interacted a lot, it always felt completely normal to me. Our relationship seemed totally ordinary.
Every day we’d go to the faculty office together, organize class information…
Maybe I’d helped him with something and he was grateful?
But I couldn’t think of anything major I’d done for him.
I lent him an umbrella on a rainy day once?
I gave him an eraser during an exam one time?
He actually ended up scoring higher than me on that test.
There was that time he ran in a long–distance race while sick, and I took him to the
nurse’s office when I found out.
Sometimes I’d bring him water during his basketball games.
But he helped me out too. Like when I wasn’t paying attention in class, he’d let me copy
his notes.
Of course, we lost touch after the high school entrance exams, until our wedding day?
recently
For the next few days, we continued Interact like normal.
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He went to the office, Ethan went to school, and I worked on my designs.
On Saturday, Ethan was at his extracurricular class and the housekeeper had gone home.
It was just the two of us in the living room.
After a long silence, I bit my lip and set aside my sketches.
My eyes unconsciously drifted to the side.
“I want to try.”
“Spending the rest of my life with you.”
“Is it too late now?”
He didn’t say anything, just stared at me.
I felt inexplicably nervous, unconsciously gripping my pen tightly.
After a while, he smiled. “Let’s go take a family photo tomorrow.”
And just like that, we truly got together.
There was no grand proposal or dramatic declarations of love.
But we had a warm little family.
