章 85: Chapter 85: Adam

We clung to each other for a long time, Destiny giving us some space. I could hear her talking, the murmurs of Tulip and Mafdel as the three spoke, felt the flickers of their auras but blocked them out so I could just stand there and hug Adam like I'd wanted to since the moment we met.

It was silly in a lot of ways, really, how attached I felt to him. After all I'd known him for only a handful of days, speaking with him only a few times. But the connection I felt ran deeper than Time, than Chaos, than anything. I hesitated to call it love, only because I had no idea what that meant and really didn't feel like attaching a teenaged crush cliché to what he meant to me. If I was in love with him, I wanted to figure that out how I was meant to, over long days together and on dates that seemed out of reach for me right now. Endless talks while we held hands and kissed if I was so lucky. Not in haste because I felt like it should be love.