time heals nothing, it just replaces memories

Chapter 2: Aylin (Day 1)

I met Aylin when I was just about 16, she was the best thing that had happened to me since my parents left me. She was 17 and let me stay in her basement as I was living on the streets when she found me. It was a cold day and I had wrapped myself in some old towel I found by the trash bins to try to keep warm. She approached me and said in her soft, innocent voice,

"You don't look too good, come home with me, you can shower and I can get you some nice, new, warm clothes. And if you want to you can live in my basement, my parents will never find out, they never go down there, only I do."

I looked up to see if it was someone I knew but it was a complete stranger, she was so beautiful though, why would she come talk to me? A complete stranger, a homeless person, a demon. She was so sweet and pure and till this day I don't know why she came to me. So anyways I went home with her she let me shower and got me clothes then she got me a blanket, sat beside me on the couch in her basement and covered our ice cold bodies in the warm, fluffy blanket. She told me that her parents weren't home yet but when they get home I mustn't make a sound. I nodded in reply. Then she grabbed my face and stared into my eyes,

"You're not straight are you?" she questions. "Ummmm no, not really" I reply, "So you're gay?" she asks as she moves closer hovering over me. I sink into my seat trying to get away "Uuuuuuuh, why are you asking this?" she sighs, "Well I didn't want to completely creep you out but since you won't tell me, I'll say it, you're pansexual and you can't deny it because I can read minds, I know everything you're thinking about, I know I'm a creep, I'm sorry" without thinking I reply, "That's okay I am too" confused she asks "You can read minds too?!" oops I don't think she knew what I meant, good. "Oh hell no, but I'm possessed" I say, "Oh shit that's cool, I like it" she says as she goes red. "Well since you asked me it's my turn to ask, are you straight?" her nose crinkles but without hesitation she says "Nope, I've been gay since I came out of the womb". I chuckled,  "Good to know" she looks away blushing and then turns back to me, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" I start to freak out but manage to say in a calm voice "I'm not a mind reader but can I be honest" she smiles "Sure, tell me anything" I start to tremble "I don't know about you but I love you, I mean, I ughhh, sorry, ummm, ughhhhh, yeah" I turned beet red, she giggled. "I loved you from the moment I looked into your eyes in the alley".

And that's where it all started. Aylin and I were both going through rough patches in our lives but we persevered by getting through it together. We loved each other and sometimes things got so bad that we thought we were all alone, facing the world alone, but in fact we weren't alone because we had each other and that was good enough.