(Noah)
I let the door close behind me and stood in the hallway for a moment.
She had said it and meant it and I was going to let it be exactly that without adding anything to it right now.
I took the elevator down, walked through the lobby and out to my bike.
I rode without rushing and my head moved to her before I had gotten very far and stayed there.
Something had shifted this morning. Not gradually. All at once, in a kitchen, six words said quietly without her usual wall in front of them. She had surprised herself saying it and decided not to take it back and that was the part that mattered. Not the feeling, she had been carrying the feeling since moving day and managing it and I had known that. This was different. This was her saying something out loud that she had been working ha
