Chapter 52

We had another moment of silence before Evan spoke again. "Hey Norah?" Past me hummed, waiting for him to tell me what he was going to tell me. "I love—" I looked up from my lap where my gaze was fixed and realized past me took her head off of Evan's shoulder and looked at him. I didn't realize what he was going to actually tell me in that moment at the time of this memory, but I knew what it was now. Too bad I didn't realize before now because he changed what he was going to say. "—This lake. It's just so pretty. Do you love it just as much as I do." It was so obvious what he was actually going to say and if I had realized that at the time, I would've made him say it. "Yeah," past me smiled. "I love it too. Thanks for showing me." "Mhm." He hummed. I knew that a part of him hoped I would've caught on to what he was trying to originally say. It was silent once again. Maybe if I would've realized what he was trying to say the day he said it, things