**Harper**
I didn't know how to return his confession. Did I love Gabriel? Oh god yes, more than I could express to him. But it felt like saying it would change it, make it possible for something to come in and take it away.
"Harper, say something please, anything." He picked a couple of pieces of grass, trying not to fidget. I licked my lips and I wanted to take the easy way out. Have him reach inside my mind to see what I was feeling so that way I didn't have to say it. But if he could spit it out, then so could I. But damn did I not want to.
"I'm sorry, I just...it feels like letting it out will make it vulnerable somehow. But I do love you, Gabriel, you are the single most important person to me." His eyes relaxed as I continued to talk. He opened his mouth to say something when his phone buzzed again.
"We are wanted at home, my mom called." I sighed, I didn't want to face Michael again. But maybe he wasn't there.
