Good Enough Start

The drive back to Alex's house was heavy with silence. Not the tense, suffocating kind of silence, but the sort that carried a mix of anticipation and unspoken thoughts.

Alex kept his eyes on the road, his jaw set in quiet determination, while Sabrina stared out of the window, her arms folded tightly across her chest. Neither of them said a word, and neither tried to break the stillness.

As Alex drove, he thought about what Sabrina had said to her grandmother, and he wondered if she had truly meant it. Or if it was just the weight of the moment that had brought those words out of her. He hoped she did.

Sabrina on the other hand thought about what she had said to her grandmother, and her heart raced with the implication of her promise.

Marriage to Alex. The thought of it made her feel flutters that she didn't want to feel.