She closed her eyes and leaned back into him, sighing as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer to him. This was it, where she wanted to be. This was where she could happily spend all of the days of her life.
This was home.
Safe. And yet she was afraid. He wouldn't have even known that. He watched the movie that played on the screen in front of them. But she kept her eyes closed, wrapped up in him. She was too afraid to open her eyes. Too afraid to discover it had all been a dream. Too afraid to open her eyes and and discover he wasn't there.
Too afraid to be without him anymore.
The Soft Embrace of Forever
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But what keeps me warm is the idea that when we are born, we are taken
apart from the universe, and when we die, we return to it. And I believe I
know w...
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