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For those looking for a place to belong. You belong here. You always will.
“A sad person knows what another sad person looks like,” I said. I dared to reach out, brushing my fingers along her cheek to tuck a stray lock of blonde hair behind her ear. Goosebumps prickled over her arms, and my eyes widened. “I hear it in your voice. I see it in your eyes. I feel it when I look at you. You deserve to be happy, but you’ll never find it with the people you’re choosing.”
They’d become my haven.
“Wherever you go, I want to be there too.”
It wasn’t luck, it was effort.
I’d had to build my own home, my own family. I’d crafted it in the only way I knew how; it was messy and strange, but it was mine and no one could take it away from me.
My family. My dogs. Sunrises and quiet mornings. The taste of coffee. The determination that I’d see Europe someday. The desire to go on a road trip across the States. I had a desperate, almost frantic belief that someday, things would be better.
“No debt, no dare, no games. Just us, with you.”
The only thing I cared about was protecting my people, my family.
“When someone I love gets hurt, it does make me a little crazy,”
“I love you, Jess. Then, now, and always.”
We’ve spent all our lives reaching for the light, and you burned through us like fire.
The key is a promise of home, safety, comfort, and support. The ring is a promise of love and devotion, a bond that won’t break.
We’d fought for our love. Fought with ourselves, with each other, with those who wanted our love to not even exist. But this was our victory. This was our forever.
