Fall Shook Up

by Piper Sheldon

“It’s like I feel simultaneously too soft and too hard for this world. I can’t let people in but somehow still manage to feel hurt by them all the time,” I said.

“You carry an entire universe in you. Every time you speak, I’m excited to hear what you’ll say. You make me feel things in a way that I haven’t felt in years. You make me see the world in a different and exciting way.”

If loving someone meant feeling desperate to stop them from ever hurting, then there was no doubt I loved Claire.