She looked at me, her fierce green eyes matched the green Earth. Her dark hair bounced around her shoulders as she marched through the grass towards me.

"Let’s go. The quest is done. We can live now. Let’s go!" She grabbed my hand and tried to pill me with her but I stood rooted in the grass.

"I know. But I still have more to do," I said uncertainly. I suddenly felt every ray of sun on my face...

I know they say there’s light in everybody and everything. In light, their is bright beautiful life. I’m not saying I had the light. But the light every single day? The never ending positivity? It was overwhelming. Sickening.

I have never been someone like that. I’d learned a long time ago to accept myself as I am. Still the constant light was a reminder of someone I wasn’t and could never be.

...

Dear Alessia,

It has been 100 years since we said goodbye. It has been 182 years since we met. 140 years since I was cursed with immortality. I have existed without a heart since you died. My chest is a cold void, never to be filled or warmed. We were supposed to be best friends forever. You promised. You promised you would never leave me. I know you had no choice. Death can for you, the way it w...

Birds circled over head. They flew in perfect formation. Their flock staying close.

It was like they mocked me with their togetherness. There flock was like a family, they stayed together on pure instinct.

Yet, I walked alone through the park. The moon was shining brightly above me, its soft light felt warm in the cold night.

The moon understood me. Everyday the sun left the sky before the m...

We were connected. Our hearts were one. We loved with everything we had.

We should have been together forever.

Yet, it was not written like that. Everything we had, was not enough.

I gave him everything.

Every part of me. The raw, broken and ugly parts. The parts I hide from everyone else.

Why wasn’t it enough?

Why are we forced to separate. Why do they see our love and feel threatened ...