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“Autumn. Classical. Right before the sun rises. You, and you.”
HOT
“I have waited a lifetime for you, my Lilith. I am not letting you go.”
“Not tonight, my love. We will have all of eternity to explore each other’s bodies. Tonight, you need to be held.”
“You’re fucking magnificent when you use your words.
Fuck fate. I want to spit and rage at how unfair it all is.
except, my grief doesn’t feel like pain; it feels like freedom.
She thinks that I discarded her from my life. I would sooner walk myself into the afterlife than do that.
Lilith may be my greatest weakness, but her tears will be what kills Death itself.
She is named after the Mother of Demons; she will do nothing short of prosper.
I’ve mourned it. Grieved it. But I never felt it. And now that I do, I can’t breathe.”
“I can’t fucking breathe knowing you’re gone. You’re never coming back. And I hate it.”
“I miss you so fucking much and I haven’t been complete without you. I tried to get back to you. I really did. I tried so hard, Dahl.
I want to capture the sparkle in her eye and place it where the sun should be.
How I long for the taste of the night. How I long to hear the sound of the storm. I’m coming for you, my love. Once I take a bite, you’re mine until even eternity comes to an end.
A wet cloth appears out of nowhere, and he wipes me down with it,
WE LOVE AFTERCARE
I’m so proud of you, my love. You have come so far.”
He’s letting me travel this path alone, but he’s constantly reminding me that he’s a step behind me to stop me from falling over the edge of the cliff. Only now, his form of support isn’t just solely emotional.
I even visited Evan’s gravesite. Though I didn’t have many words for him, except the three that mattered: I forgive you.
The whole thing is filled to the brim with rolled-up brown parchment. It’s no longer kept together tidily in a box. Rolls of paper fall into the box of feathers, and make their way into every nook and cranny of the drawer.
Seeing as you have been telling me about your day, I shall tell you about mine. Today I watched the most otherworldly soul smile as she gazed upon a flower. Though my heart is greedy because I only want her to smile for me.
Every day I watch you grow, and I could not be prouder.
Rafe. Letum made a toy dog that looks exactly like my old boy.
If soon cannot come soon enough, then come find me, my night monster. I will give you a hint: To end, you must go to the beginning.
where she had the accident????
Every time he looked at me like nothing else mattered except the words that came out of my mouth.
“You are the sunrise after the storm. The new beginning and the dawn. You, my flower, are beauty personified.
Everything is washed away with the sea, and all that’s left is… contentment.
