“I love you too,” she whispers as her lip trembles. “No matter what.”
“No matter what,” I say back softly, meaning it.
I don’t know what our next chapter holds. I don’t have a crystal ball to see that far ahead—even though some days, I wish I did. But I know one thing to be true: wherever this trip leads us, I’ll stand by her side. Win or lose. Always.
Whatever is written in the next chapter has Paige and me in it. Together. And really, that’s all I can ask for.
I found someone to have and to hold. To fight for and to sometimes fight with. A person who makes my darkest days hurt a little less and my sunny days even brighter. I’d never sit on a soapbox and pretend we are perfect—we aren’t. We’ve swum in some rough seas and felt like we were drowning too. We had to fall apart to come back together, but that’s exactly what we did, and we’re better for it now. Our story is flawed, but whose isn’t?
At the end of it all…
Here we are.
Fighting for us. Fighting for our future. Fighting for our dreams.
And as much as it sucked, losing Paige taught me a valuable lesson. And that’s …
I will never stop fighting for us.
The End