First Flight, Final Fall

by C.W. Farnsworth

Find beauty in the broken pieces.

“If you’re doing the same as everyone else, you’re not going to be the best.”

Instead, I turn and head for the tunnel without saying another word. I’ve always found it easier to say nothing unguarded at all.

“It means I want to date you. Be in a relationship. Whatever you want to call it. I want you, Saylor.”

“Well, it’s not exactly black and white. That’s why there are a million songs and books and movies about it. No love story is exactly the same, the way no two people are exactly the same.”

Because the sight of Adler Beck walking into my living room is not one I ever expected to see.

“I came because I feel this way around you even when we’re just staring at the sky,” Beck continues.

Because I’m completely, devastatingly in love with him, even if I haven’t told him so.