Is he afraid I could possibly turn away from him? That I could ever tell him no, you’re not the pair to every part and piece of me, you’re not everything I’ve ever dreamed of? I have loved him forever. I’ve loved him when he didn’t know me, when he barely tolerated me. I’ve loved him through every brutal drill and tentative smile and shoulder brush on cross-country flights. I’ve loved him with my sweat and my muscle tears, with the burn in my bones, with my sunrise skates and my midnight workouts. I’ve loved him for so long and so deeply, the embers of that love sparked and caught and remade
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