22.

You don't realise how precious some moments are when shared with your favourite person, until you can't have those moments back. And it was the simple ones too - the ones where there was no sex, no spontaneous date or adventure. Just us, in the comfort of one another.

As Sam and I drove the two hour drive from central Seattle to Redmond, I could only appreciate the numerous attempts he had made along the way to calm my nerves, but nothing was working. On top of not being able to look Sam in the eye after the events of last night, my kiss with Theo still fresh in my mind, I now also had to face my parents, which was something I hadn't prepared for at all. The weekend was bound to end in tears and misery from the beginning, and I knew that Sam and I would return to our apartment on Monday night exhausted and fed up, but this was something we had to do.