If an old person or opportunity returns, Leo may reasonably wonder whether anything is actually different.
Words alone cannot answer that.
Behavior can.
Someone may finally demonstrate consistency.
They make the plan they used to avoid.
They follow through.
They acknowledge earlier mistakes without trying to excuse everything.
That evidence matters.
Something once considered impossible may become possible only because the circumstances—and perhaps the people involved—are genuinely different now.
If nothing has changed except the words, Leo has every reason to remain cautious.
The real surprise could be Leo saying yes
Perhaps you have already decided that certain things belong permanently in the past.
Then one situation returns in a much healthier form.
You listen.
You examine the evidence and realize the reasons you originally walked away may no longer apply.
Leo could unexpectedly decide to explore the possibility again.
Not because nostalgia wins.
Because the present genuinely looks different.
One careful yes could turn the first week of September into the beginning of a story Leo never expected to revisit.
There is no need to know immediately where it ends.
Sometimes allowing a conversation is enough.
Or Leo may finally receive the impossible thing—and decline it
