She does not know it, but I have always been watching her. In the times when she did notice, she would always say the same thing.

“Yes?”

“Nothing.”

And, by way of a reassurance, I would smile. But nothing is not nothing. Never is, and, for the times in the past in which we found hindsight, never has been.

I want to remember this, is what I would have said. Because we are already beginning to forget.