"elodie?"
"oh my god, phil?!"
the two collided in a breathtaking hug, elodie burying her nose in the crook of phil's neck.
"i can't believe it's really you," phil mumbled into her hair.
"i can't believe you really exist."
"what's that supposed to mean?"
elodie pulled away from him and smiled. "you seemed too good to be true."
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"come on, that's not fair!"
"all is fair in the game of mario kart, phil."
phil flopped his ds shut and sighed exasperatedly. "fine. you win."
"just like i told you i would?"
"just like you told me you would."
a comfortable silence - interrupted only every thirty seconds by the beeping on the many machines that watched over elodie - feel between them.
"what are you looking at?" phil asked after a while.
elodie was leaned back in her bed, eyes fixed to the window a few feet away from her.
"it's so beautiful," she said softly.
phil followed her gaze. "the sunset?"
elodie nodded. she was captivated by the strokes of rich gold that lined the horizon, the pinkish hue of floating clouds stretched across the sky like candy floss.
"so dawn goes down to day, nothing gold can stay."
phil turned to look at her quizzically. he didn't like the way that she said those awful words. they were indisputably true, but the resigned tone in her voice brought them to life.
elodie was gold.
and she wasn't going to stay.
