To change this, I would have to betray this. I would have to play with less than everything I have, throw games, sabotage their future. To steal this chance from him would be a betrayal beyond words. How do you refuse fate when it wears the face of everything you love? No, I will not dishonor him by giving him less than the man I have become. However much time resists or repeats itself, I can’t be the one to quit first.

