"𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞."

╭┈─────── ೄྀ࿐ ˊˎ-
╰┈➤𝐈 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮.
𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢'𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫.
𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞,𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐭, 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭. 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐎𝐔. ࿐ྂ

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Paris. It was your new life. Your new home. You were expected to leave everything behind, pressured to leave all that tragedy, all that pain, in the past. It felt impossible, like a constant weight on your shoulders dragging you down wherever you'd go. Even the new city, the new people, couldn't take that pain away.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝.

He was mysterious in all the right ways, kind where it counted most, and by god was he cute. He had become your light, at least, that's what he'd led you to believe.

And then, he happened, too. He was even more of a mystery than the first, almost like a shadow - fleeting under the cover of darkness but as bright as can be under the sun.

𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬...𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥?