Future Hopes and Past Secrets

We pull up to a parking lot, a park in front of us.

I unbuckle my seatbelt, but Declan grabs my hand and keeps me there. He looks down at our fingers and smiles. “I want to tell you something before we join everyone else.”

Worry creeps up my skin. “Is something wrong?”

He lifts his eyes to mine and shakes his head. “No. The complete opposite.”

There’s a moment of silence, like peaceful clarity. H