Lucy Giancola’s Reviews > You and Me on Vacation > Status Update

“Poppy,” he says, “there may come a day when I no longer need to be touching you at all times, but that day is not today.”

More than anything though, I want Alex to be happy. To have everything he’s always wanted. I have to stop getting in the way, to give him the chance to have all of that.

And I don’t know what we’ve down, what chain reaction we might have just triggered, how this will all pan out, but right then I can’t think about anything else but the crush of love looping between us.

And I want a tether-less life of spontaneous trips and exciting new relationships, different seasons with different people, and quite possibly to never settle down.

We’re magnets, trying to draw together even as we cradle the careful distance between us.