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I thought you were going to die in my arms. So forgive me, Lennon, if I’d rather carry your shit for five minutes so you can take it easy.”
“I think you’re funny and cool and you’re definitely the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen in my entire life. You’re also strong and brave, and nobody is worth you feeling worthless.”
“Looking at you, knowing you exist in my world, that you could be mine one day and gone the next, is the most overwhelming thing I’ve ever felt.”
“The best thing I’ve ever gifted to myself is, by far, the way I feel with you in my arms.”
Maybe you just give her your heart and trust that she’s going to protect it. The same way she trusts you to hold her purse, even though you could lose it.”
Lennon is mine. My best friend, the hand in mine, the weight lifted off my chest. She’s the sunrise when I spent too many years in the dark, and breathing easier for the first time since I was a kid.
“I’ll wait, Jaxon. I don’t care how long. Because this? This is a once-in-a-lifetime feeling. You’re a once-in-a-lifetime find. I’m not walking away.”
“Here it is, honey. I love you. I am so goddamn, mind-blowingly in love with you, and the thought of losing you is killing me. I don’t want you to go. This place only feels like a home when you’re here.” I whisper my final plea. “Please, honey. Please stay.”
“I love you for reminding me how much Advil to take, and for massaging my back when I’m on my period. I love you for teaching me how to use the complicated espresso machine, and for making my lattes most of the time anyway. I love you for the tulips, for taking the time to learn how to care for my hair, for sitting next to me on the couch and listening to me ramble on about my pictures. I love you for supporting my dreams, for taking me to watch the stars, for looking at me the way I look at them, and the same way I look at you, like I’m the most incredible thing you’ve ever seen.”
“There is no one alive who could love me better than you do, Jaxon. You love me the way I always dreamed of being loved. The way I deserve to be loved. And I’m going to love you the way you deserve to be loved.”
Being with you feels like the first time I looked through your telescope. It feels like seeing fifty million stars when I’d only ever been able to see ten thousand. It feels like an impossible rainbow of lights dancing through a black night. Like a storm that’s been living for hundreds of years, and meteors falling from the sky. Love feels like looking at you and not understanding how something as beautiful as everything you are exists, but just accepting that it does, because a world without you means a world without light.”
Kissing Lennon is like that first sip of coffee on a cold winter morning. She’s everything warm and rich, this cozy feeling that sinks into your bones, settles all your racing thoughts. She wakes me up, slow and steady, chases away the fog, makes me feel ready to take on the toughest parts of my day.
“You’re worth it, Jaxon,” she whispers. “You’ve always been worth it.”
“Life’s been beautiful since you walked into it, Lennon. Doesn’t matter what it looks like, because through it all, I’m only gonna be looking at you.”
