Nicholas

Curled up next to me is Kenzie: her head is next to mine, her chin resting on my shoulder and her leg is just over mine. When I finally managed to fall asleep very late last night, I was as far over on the one side of the bed as I could possibly be without falling out. I wanted to avoid touching her at all costs—it was hard enough to know what she was wearing under the blankets, I don’t know how I would have handled actually touching her. Yet as I take in the bed this morning, I realize that we are both now lying in the middle...