Colliding With Fate

by A.E. Valdez

watch her fall with me. In this moment, I realize she is the only person I would ever want to fall with. I know I came here because I didn’t want Lincoln, or any other guy, to have the chance to possibly know her in this way. The way that only I know her.

In these moments, everything else fades away. All I see is her. All I feel is her. When I fall into the softness of her my soul and sorrows are wrapped in peace.

“Mark my words,” she says, raising her finger in the air, “you and that girl are fated for one another.”

“I want to be with you, Quinn.” She takes a sharp inhale of breath. I take a step towards her. “I know my life is crazy… but you’ve been my refuge–my peace. All I know for certain right now is that I want you. All of you. And if you don’t want to deal with all the shit I’ve got going on, I understand that too. But I–”

“Mind your business.” She says as I open the door for her to get into the driver’s seat. “You are my business.” I say, shutting her door.

He wraps his arms around me and kisses my shoulder. “I’d be lost without you.”

“Sometimes the only way to the light is through the darkness. But there will be little beacons of light along the way that will help see you through. There is a duality of dark and light. Remember, we can’t shine without the dark.”

I’ve never believed in fate until I met you. But we kept getting pushed back into each other’s lives until we… collided with fate.

Quinn and I, we collided with fate. Fell, crashed, and fucking burned. But we fell together, crashed together, and we fucking burned together.