Neither of them are the people they were a year ago, or six months ago. They've been through too much together. Learning to help each other to make time for each other, learning to trust with everything... of course, they've changed. For the better.

"I hope you'll tell me about those other reasons later," she murmurs. A finger curls under his chin and tilts his head just enough for her to give him a kiss. "I didn't know it was possible to make sunscreen smell nice."

As big plans go, it's a pretty big one. They did well. "True, another layer would be smart. We can walk while the second layer soaks in."