“When it all started to dry up and the heaviness that I’d carried for so long began to was, giving me my first real deep breaths in months. I lifted my head to look up at him. This boy who I never expected to be my hero. This boy who had been by my side through so many of my life’s changes. Maybe it had always been, but I had never known it, or understood it. But I knew now. I loved Gunner Lawton.”