She thought her passions, her love, everything she cared about would disappear like imploding planets when the curtains fell for the last time, pounding, crashing, leaving black holes in its wake. She thought it would be over then, something she would just have to accept.
He was so used to the struggle of moving up, climbing the ladder to something better all the time. But as he stood at the top of that ladder looking down at the world she left behind, it was nothing but a desert. The ladder was gone, and she was alone.
Alone.
As she squinted through the nothingness, she knew the desert gave way to other adventures, other horizons. Though there was no one to listen to her anymore, she held on to her love as long as possible, grasping at it like her life depended on it, because in a way, it did.
He realized there was more than the ladder, the top, the success. Who had he met along the way? His body would decay until it became another grain of sand in the vast desert, but his voice would live after him.
Flourish.
They smiled for the first time in what felt like years, for they knew themselves to be forever young.
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Fanfiction[COMPLETE] "She was a fortress, and he was forbidden ivy, wrapping around her pillars until it choked out every single reason and excuse she managed to conjure up." ☾ Rein Jones, a rising pop artist hailing from the USA, is invited to feature on BT...
