Chapter 97 What Gets Rebuilt

• Jules POV
• The thing nobody tells you about being with someone after you've already broken each other is that the ordinary moments feel like tests you don't know you're passing until you've passed them.
• Adrian and I had been carefully, rebuilding for weeks by the time the ordinary moments started to feel ordinary again. we had kept things slow—long talks, late library nights, kisses that never went further than heated making out. I had drawn the line clearly, and he had respected it. The slow re-accumulation of small things — inside jokes, the particular way he reached for my hand in the dark, not urgently, just steadily, the way you reach for something you're certain will still be there.