Chapter 58 It Is Not A Date

I don't know what it was, but the moment I watched Hazel's eyes flicker open, something changed. The burden of the last few days felt lifted off my shoulders, like I could breathe again. Yet, there was one thing that hadn't changed, no matter how much the world seemed to right itself. Isabel. It wasn't that things were bad between us—far from it—but the tension which had been in the air prior to Hazel collapsing hadn't dissipated by that time, not by a long shot. I could still feel the walls she had built around herself, like she was holding herself back from something.