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Everywhere I looked was love alongside brokenness

I was so tense when I got ho to shake it off Februaries in Georgia were always chilly, but it was brutal this year My fingers, ears, and nose were freezing Definitely not helping with the stress and tension factor I turned for hoet much snow Hardly any, actually So e did, it filledof excite stupidly at the falling white flakes, holding out ers to catch theht I’d iined it when I heard a lovely, low, accented voice call rinning, and turned Then held rin fall fro next to a black car with the driver’s door open, was Kaidan We stared withoutI didn’t feel cold anyray cap and his hair adorably stuck out of the edges and curled upward His eyes were locked onsnow their blueness shone like a beacon to my heart But I didn’t move toward hiuarded expression--not angry or happy, just cautious--he reminded me of a wild ani in the woods Any false move or sound could startle him away

"Hi," I whispered

"Hi, yourself," he said quietly

This was really happening I sed, and my chest shook a little when I breathed

"I hate Valentine’s Day," I told hirin "Yeah, it’s shite"

I grinned a little, too "Is everything okay?" I asked, wondering for the first tireedy eyes soaked each other in "I just needed to see that you’re well And it seeripped the door and I saw it move an inch, which caused a o, yet Please don’t go

I stepped to the edge of the sidewalk, still afraid that if I got too close, he’d vanish But I needed to get close I needed to tell him about the prophecy and that I’d always love hi those eyes ht he ht I could so easily ain A stab of guilt pained ht about that closet in Australia

I was halfway across the street, eyelashes fluttering away snowflakes He was pushing past the door to come to me

This is all I’d wanted For him to come to me Even for a moment It didn’t matter that I probably looked like a mess from er, pushing me away What mattered was that he was here now And we could finally fix it all I could see in his warm eyes that’s what he wanted, too

And then the ht dotted the far sky We both noticed at once and halted Thisperers They weren’t flying low--it see over on their way so seen together

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