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Authors: Leah Petersen

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“I know,” I said, squeezing his hand, swallowing Blaine’s words and the memories he had dredged up. “I’m glad.”

“I feel like I could fly,” he said, his voice lower, but excited. “I feel like I could do anything.
We
could do anything.”

“We can,” I said, smiling back at him. “We will. I’ve got you now, and I won’t let anything happen to you,” I said.

A brief, puzzled frown creased his brow for a moment, and I realized it was a bit of an odd answer to what he was saying. But Blaine’s words still gripped my stomach.

“I just mean we’re together now,” I said, “and everything’s going to be great.”

He hugged me. “Yes, it will.”

I hugged him back, hard; holding on to him maybe a bit longer, with something more than he knew, in the way I clung to him. “Everything’s going to be great.”

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