Then the narrator be like
If only we'd known back then...
But no, seriously, they're so happy together that it makes me physically uncomfortable. Like, oh god, they're happy? Is someone gonna die? Does one of them need to leave the country? What is the other shoe and when is it dropping?
This, from a person who's already read the next 30 or so chapters anyway. I know exactly how things go from here and this chapter still evokes that sense of random panic.