(Cassidy)
I couldn't sleep.
Not because anything was wrong. Just because my brain had decided that the night before moving day was a good time to go through every single thing I'd ever felt about leaving this place and present it all at once without asking if I was ready.
I sat up carefully so I didn't wake Dane and swung my legs over the side of the bed and sat there for a moment in the dark.
Tomorrow we were leaving.
Not forever. Not in a way that cut anything off. But leaving in the way that mattered. Waking up somewhere else. Coming home to somewhere else.
I got up and went to the living room and sat on the couch without turning the lights on. Just sat there in the dark the way you sat with things that needed sitting with.
I'd been twenty seven when I moved in here. I hadn't kno
