“Honey,” he murmured.
“And I wasn’t alone in there anymore.”
Jag turned his head and put his cheek to her hair.
“I haven’t made up my mind about fate and destiny, what godthere is, if there is one,” she stated.“I just know that day, however ithappened, you were put there for me.And that might not be true in someoneelse’s reality.But it is in mine.”
“It’s true,” he confirmed.
“Okay.”
“I’ve never sat quiet and talked with a woman like thisbefore,” he told her.
“It’s good to be quiet,” she replied.
“Maybe for some.I don’t think so.I live loud.”
It was cautious when she said, “All right.”
And he knew this was cautious because it seemed from whatshe was saying that Archie lived wide, not loud.
But Jagger felt that was a match.
“But for this, you and me,” he carried on, “I think it’sokay, it works for me, because we have time and it doesn’t seem like…there’s norace to…”
He couldn’t figure out how to finish that.
“Get it all in before it all ends?”she suggested.
He closed his eyes.
She cuddled closer.
“We have time, Jagger,” she assured.
His voice was thick when he said, “Yeah.”
“That’s the difference, you know, for us?”
“Uh…” he said, because he didn’t know.
She tipped her head back and he lifted his.
“My arrows, your race.That’s how we are.That’s what welearned to be.They taught us the biggest lesson we’ll probably ever learn, andit’s a lesson they would never have wanted to teach.We now have no choice butto live like that.But with each other, we can have quiet.With each other, wecan slow down.With each other, we can be right where we are.That’s thedifference.That’s me for you and you for me.Do you feel that?”
Oh he felt it, all right.
He nodded.
“That’s why I don’twannafuck.Because I reallydowannafuck.But that’snot us.It’s not for now.We have time for that.We need to wait for that time.Yeah?”
He could not believe he was doing it, but he nodded again,and he meant it.
“We’ll know when it’s right,” she said.
“Totally didn’t agree with not making out with you, though,”he pointed out.
She smiled up at him.
