“You’re as essential as the air I breathe, the water I drink, the music I play. Without you, I’m barely breathing. Barely existing. I refuse to be without you.” “I refuse to be without you too,” I whisper. My head rests next to his side. I fall apart at the recollection of that moment. The first ‘Hey there.’ The gleam in his clear blue eyes. The excitement in his voice. The way he swayed to the sound of Piazzolla’s Invierno. The encouraging words he gave the girl he had just met. The moment when I met the boy who would change my life.
