Now, I think. Now I’m happy. Not just happy, but relieved. Relieved I never gave up, never gave in, just so I could get to this moment. Right. Fucking. Here. My eyes are burning, and I’m sure they’re bloodshot to all hell. I can’t smile, can’t swallow. I don’t so much as blink or breathe, too fucking terrified he might disappear if I do anything but stare. He came. Head empty of everything but that. He came, he came, he came.

