** Eli **
Tyler tipped back the whiskey bottle and emptied the rest of it. Thankfully, the liquor didn't seem to be making him angrier at the current conversation — on the contrary, it appeared to have helped him think quite logically, since the topic they were currently discussing was something that Eli himself had never even considered before.
To Eli, being with Harper had always felt easy. Natural, perfect, right. He might've had many doubts in the past two months, from feelings to responsibilities and everything in between, but never once had those doubts included this flawless sense of ease. Despite the four years out of touch, she still felt as close to him as ever, as if they had merely hit a pause button the day they last saw each other at his graduation. Now that time had resumed its flow again, everything simply came back and slipped right into its original track, in the same way it was always supposed to be.
