In the Long Run

by Haley Cass

“Oh, come on. I’m sure the queer women of Faircombe are lining up for you.” “All three of them are usually busy.” Brooke deadpanned.

“I’m walking you home, Taylor.” She gestured to the stairs ahead of them, leading off of her porch. “We’re already out of the house, so don’t bother arguing.” “And they say chivalry is dead.”

We all have the people who’ve shaped us, but the same person who broke your heart is someone else’s hero. The thing you’re running away from is exactly what someone else is running toward. Make your mistakes. Chase your dreams. Speak your truth. Listen to other people’s truths along the way.

You touch me and somehow I can tell: You lift me even as I’m falling.

“I can’t say that it’s always been you. I just know that it’s never been anybody else.”