the way things are | upon wings of change

one.

i've come to accept that this is just the way things are.

the sixteenth of december last year was the last time i saw my girlfriend, paige.

i had come home from our date, and everything was great. more than great. she made me so happy.

and then, the next morning, she was gone. our families and community spent weeks, months looking for her. until they gave up.

i lost all hope. she was gone, forever.

now it is june, and i am starting my first job. it is at a secretive laboratory, and everything is extremely dodgy, but they were desperate for people and i was desperate for money.

but what i found was nothing i would ever have expected.