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Love is in the details. It’s in the everyday. It’s the way you treat someone when they aren’t even looking and the way they fill your head when you’re apart.
Stolen moments in the dark, grazing touches as we worked beneath the hood of his car. Laughter, smiles… friendship. Wasn’t it those things that made life suck less? Let’s face it. Life is hard.
Up until now, there was never anything I cared enough about to fight for. Then I met Trent. I fell in love with my best friend. It’s a good damn thing I was a fighter. I’d fight for him. I’d fight for me. I’d fight for us.
Love was a conundrum, a paradox. Loving Trent was incredibly easy. I did it without thought, without effort. But everything that came with those automatic feelings—that’s where the effort came in.
“The right kind of love is supposed to bring out the best in people. It adds to your life, fills in all those gaps you didn’t even realize were there. Trent does that for you, doesn’t he?”
“The only thing strong enough to chase away pain is love.”
“Yes. But some of our greatest pain becomes our greatest strength.”
“It was complete.”
I wanted the honor of being the one person on this earth he trusted enough to let inside. Inside his body. Inside his heart.
“No, Drew. I’m giving you my forever. I’m giving you my heart for my entire lifetime. I’m just not taking that from you.” His thumb stroked over my cheekbone.
“Even if I lost every single one of those things you just listed, it still wouldn’t add up to the single loss of you.”
Stars can’t shine without darkness.
Who needed caffeine when I had a dimple-wielding car addict in front of me?
Our friendship was better because of our love. Our love was better because it blossomed out of friendship.
“I want to live like I drive. Full throttle. I don’t want to back down. I don’t want to put my career above our relationship. I don’t want a line drawn between my life with you on one side and everything else on the other.”
Sometimes in life you had to tie a knot and hold on. I would be his knot.
All love was not created equal. It wasn’t a birthright. It wasn’t earned by blood. Love wasn’t guaranteed. Really pure love was hard to come by. It didn’t matter where it was found. All that mattered was that we held on when it was.
But I didn’t want control, not right now. Not with him. I trusted him. “I want you over me,” I said. “All I want to see and feel is you. I don’t care about anything else.” He laid aside the foil packet and picked up the lube. I spread my legs, and he settled between them. Before, I always thought of girls as the ones who needed “time” to get ready for sex. Guys walked around with instant hard-ons, literally ready to plunge in. But men needed time to get ready, too. Entering anyone’s body, be it a man or a woman, wasn’t an instant thing. Well, unless you were an asshole lover. Trent was a
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“I love you, Drew,” he whispered, but I didn’t hear those words with my ears. They whispered directly into my heart. “I love you, too.”
didn’t have to pull out. Before
It wasn’t just love. It was #TrewLove. PS: Get it? That’s our ship name. #Trew. PSS: Don’t tell anyone I gave us a ship name.
I love him. I can’t help loving him. Would we have chosen this? Maybe not, but there isn’t a choice here. It’s him.
“I kinda fucking missed you, Forrester,”
“I’m so glad my heart chose you.” Reaching around, I pulled his hand around and pressed my lips to center of his palm. Not as glad as I am. “I’ll take care of it, T.” I vowed. I’d take better care of it than my own. It was the easiest promise I ever made.
