But I’m not wearing the appropriate clothes for the occasion. “You’re always more than appropriate.

Then it wasn’t about if I wanted to keep my promise or not anymore… it was about if I could.

I knew I couldn’t let her go, not again, especially then that I knew she would not ever come back if she did.

I just don’t know where to go from here, Alex.”“You don’t have to, we can trace our map together.

And we love you but I have to ask you to help me, to help us, please.”“How?” I asked, “By pretending nothing ever happened? Act as if she and I were strangers? Stand the way your sister acts towards me after all of what we had? Forget my story by her side? Are you asking me for that, Gabriel, for God’s sake?”“It sounds pretty bad when you put it like that…” Gabriel said, “but yes, pretty much.

I learned that love can come twice in a lifetime, and, with the time, even thrice.