Jenny Han

“Earlier, when I said I never wanted you. I didn’t mean it.”

I didn’t want to make the same mistakes my parents made. I didn’t want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

If anybody could make things right, it was my mother.

What else do I get?”

Come back. Be the you I love and remember.

Because, it was more than just a house. It was every summer, every boat ride, every sunset. It was Susannah.

Because I remembered. I remembered everything.

Conrad strode up to us, his eyes gleaming. “I killed it,”

And then Conrad smiled at me, and whirled me around so fast I almost tripped.

Conrad picked me up and threw me over his shoulder like I weighed nothing, just like he had the other night.