The Right Side of Forever (The Perfect Duet, #2)

by Meghan Quinn

“Because life is fucked up and doesn’t work like the fairy tales we used to watch as little girls. Life is complicated, a roller coaster of emotions that strips us bare and exposes all of our insecurities. Can I ask you a question?”

“Is this how you felt when you couldn’t have Rory?” Slowly he nods, eyes on his wife. “It was fucking torture. Knowing that the person you feel the most connected to, the person you know deep down in your soul you’re supposed to be with is with someone else and there is nothing you can do about it. It’s like living in hell every damn day of your life with a three-hundred-pound man sitting on your chest making it impossible to breathe when they’re around.” Yep. He gets me.

There is no way to measure perfect, not in this world, not when everyone is imperfect in their own right.”

“The left side of perfect is the kind of soul-baring perfect that shows your every flaw for the world to see . . . the imperfect.”

Just like there is a right and left side of perfect, there is a right and left side of forever. The left side of forever represents the relationships that come and go in your life but have had an impact on the person you’ve become. The right side of forever provides the relationship that stays with you, the relationship that’s imprinted itself so deep into your bone marrow that you live and breathe for that person. You’re my right side of forever, baby.

“Well, I see it now. You’ve helped me see my worth, Colby. For once, when I look in the mirror, I see the girl you see, and she falls on the left side of perfect and on the right side of your forever.”

It’s not just about love, but about friendship. It’s easy to fall in love, to be infatuated with another person, but what makes a love last a lifetime is the foundation it’s built from.