Having a bike was new; and after all they had been through, he was still surprised that she had had it found and given it back to him. "I promised," she had said, as if having driven it back to her with a different plan had not done anything to erase the promise.
He never promised anything, spent countless nights away; but as sure as that bike (new, unexpected, but somehow just right) had come back to him, he always came back to her.