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Pietra

I love you.

My hands gripped the Mini's steering wheel so hard my knuckles turned white. The words repeated over and over in my head, the echo of memories mixing with Josh's husky voice. Ben shyly saying those words for the first time over dinner at the Tir Na Nog pub , his nervous face watching me over the top of his pie. My dad whispering them in my ear as he tucked me into bed at night. My own lips trembled as I fought back tears to say the words at his funeral.

The freezing night had left a layer of ice on the Mini's windshield. I tried wiping it off with my gloved hand, but it wasn't doing the trick. I didn't want to go back to camp to thaw the water and risk running into Josh, so I rolled down the window and cruised slowly down the trail, leaning over the car door like the main character in a bad spy movie.

Josh loved me. He loved me. My chest ached with the weight of that revelation. After everything he's been through, that must have been an amazing thing for him to say.
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