Raphael feels so alive with Alice ’s arm around him. He doesn’t know if he could feel this contentment from anywhere else, especially since he was never allowed to do that sort of thing. But being here in the woods with a beautiful girl like Alice, it really feels like they belong there. It isn’t even that he’d be jealous if she wanted to date someone else or get back together with someone else not at all.

It’s just nice to see her smile so much and laugh freely, to know that he’ll always have a place to be when she needs it. And maybe he should stop thinking about...