It's Different This Time

by Joss Richard

“Favorite month?” I raise my eyebrow. He stops the fast pacing of our back-and-forth and looks at me. He’s been looking at me, but now it feels different. “Still June,” he says, and I realize I’m holding my breath.

Adam Harper is the one person who can make me feel like everything is going to be okay and at the same time the only person who can thoroughly crush my entire world.

A part that has always been Adam’s, and I’m learning, no matter how much I resist, maybe always will be.

It’s funny how the world turns, changes through the years, yet a structure surrounded by brick will stand still in time.

The thing about lightning in a bottle is that it’s a fleeting moment in time, a spark that’s rare and special…but it’s also impossible to re-create.

There’s always been a deep connection between the two of us, the ability to have a conversation with a mere look across the room. Sometimes the most intimate things we’ve said were in silence.

For me, the idea of two people choosing to go through life side by side, to become one half of a whole, knowing one day you’ll lose them…is brave.

There’s far too much I need to work on for myself before being capable of caring for another human.