Dean took a moment to think about the answer he wanted to give her. He'd always been honest with Emily when she'd asked him something and he didn't see a reason to change that now. "Sometimes I think we'd still be together, because we were good together. But other times - I'm not so sure," he told her taking a sip of his beer.
"We've both changed Em. I don't know if that's because we grew up more or because we went to different schools. Or a little bit of both," he told her, staring down at the bottle in his hand. When he was really honest, his favorite option was that they would still be together but he was afraid to tell her that because he didn't know how she'd react to that.
He'd dated other girls in the time he'd been away but none of them had stuck with him the way Emily had.