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“You don’t have to bring me anything, Jugs. Just as long as you keep coming back.”
“I had to… grow up very fast. But at the same time, it feels like I haven’t had a chance to grow up at all. Like I’m still a boy and I don’t know what I’m doing. I feel like I am just pretending to be the Moric. Like I shouldn’t be wearing these beads or sleeping in this room.”
“I will keep this. Soon I will have a glorious collection of otherworld artifacts.” My chest ached at how sweet he was. “You don’t have to keep it. It’s just trash.” He gasped. “It is not trash! It is from your world, and you gave it to me. Therefore it is precious.”
He was just so beautiful.
“I wish I didn’t need to keep you a secret,” he whispered, fine brows pinching with anguish. “I want to show you everything here. I want everyone to see how beautiful you are.”
“Your dainty ears and proud nose and full mouth. You are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, Jugs.”
“I miss you every day,” I told him hoarsely, nuzzling the short golden hair above his ear. “Every hour you are not here.”
“I want you too, more than anything. I miss you every moment you are not here. I dream of you after you leave. I spend my days wishing you were beside me, wishing that I could have you here with me always.”
“You are everything to me. I won’t survive it, not as I am now. I won’t.” Releasing his hand, I splayed my trembling fingers over his chest. “My heart is in here now. Not with me. I will be empty without you.”
“Life doesn’t always work out the way you want it to. But at least we had a little time together, right? At least… at least we managed to meet, against all the odds. I’d say we did pretty well.”
“You’ve w-waited for me this whole time?”
“I would wait my whole life for you,”
“I would wait forever for you, Jugs.”
