My phone rang before we could even clear the gate; it was Chantal. “Hey, where’d you go? Did you guys leave? Where are you going?”

“I don’t know. Gabe, where are we going?” I was way giddier than the situation warranted, but I didn’t care if he noticed.

I felt like flying like the sun had escaped the clouds and was shining down on me. All my angst and uneasiness just seemed to melt away with him here. It was as if being this close to him was all that was needed to ...