[Sometimes Abigail gets so caught up in her own head that she forgets that the future hasn't come yet. That most of the time, there's nothing she can do to change or control it. That the last few times she's tried to put her thumb on the future, someone's taken advantage of her fears and anxieties and hurt her for it.]
[She doesn't believe that living in the now will solve all of her problems. Far from it. But she does believe that it can't be worse than what she was already doing. She believes, too, that she has more to learn from Elena than she could ever express. The girl is wiser and kinder and more than anyone else Abigail's ever met, and she wants to make her proud.]
[So when Elena smiles and says now, Abigail smiles back, a little watery but all there, all focused on this beautiful woman who she never honestly thought she'd see again.]
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[She doesn't believe that living in the now will solve all of her problems. Far from it. But she does believe that it can't be worse than what she was already doing. She believes, too, that she has more to learn from Elena than she could ever express. The girl is wiser and kinder and more than anyone else Abigail's ever met, and she wants to make her proud.]
[So when Elena smiles and says now, Abigail smiles back, a little watery but all there, all focused on this beautiful woman who she never honestly thought she'd see again.]
Yeah. We don't have to.
We should celebrate.