superhero // lauv
mike & el
One rainy night in November, I met a superhero.
Not everyone would assume she was a superhero at first, why would they?
This tiny girl, lost out in the middle of the woods, all alone with fear in her eyes didn't exactly fit the typical savior of the world description, but that's exactly what she was.
She was a savior of the world, a superhero, who held so much power in her hands, enough to destroy, to kill, yet she had the purest heart I had ever seen.
She was kind, selfless, and understood me better than anyone. She was pretty, really pretty, even if she didn't believe it herself. She was.
Just as soon as I'd found her though, I lost her.
She vanished right in front of my eyes, leaving my heart crushed into a million pieces.
She saved me, she saved all of us, but in order for her to do that, she had to sacrifice herself.
It was the worst thing that had ever happened to me, to lose someone I had expected to have in my life forever.
Sure, I had only known her for a number of days, but that was enough for me to know that I always wanted her with me.
I always wanted her with me and she was, until all of the sudden, she just wasn't anymore.
She was gone and I just wanted her back, more than I had wanted anything in my entire life.
She did things to me that no one else could. She filled my heart with so much happiness. She made me smile. She made me laugh. She made me feel alive.
As the days passed, I missed that more and more. I missed her more and more.
I missed her so much I completely shut down. I was like a whole new person. I was sad all the time and lonely and I felt like it was never going to get better.
My friends and family tried to comfort me, they tried to help, but I didn't want to talk about it. I couldn't.
It's not like any of them could do a thing about it. They couldn't make it better. They couldn't bring her back to me.
Little did I know, she would eventually make her way back to me, saving not only our town and quite possibly the world, but also saving me, in more ways than I could ever put into words.
She walked right through that door and my whole world changed.
I had gotten her back, I had finally gotten her back.
We went to the Snowball together. We danced together. We shared another kiss and it was the most amazing night ever.
And that tiny girl I had found out in the rain that night had suddenly become the most important thing to me in the world. She was all the mattered.
For months, I got to spend my days with her, this perfect human being that I was lucky enough to have in my life, lucky enough to call my girlfriend.
I got to learn things about her that nobody else in the world has the pleasure of knowing. We shared so many hugs, so many kisses, so much happiness that I thought it was all a dream.
A beautiful dream.
It wasn't a dream though, it was real and it was my life.
It was perfect.
But then all of the sudden, it wasn't so perfect anymore and she was being taken away from me once again.
This time, I knew where she was going. I knew she'd be okay, but she wouldn't be with me and that felt like she was vanishing right in front of my eyes all over again.
She had saved us all again, she saved me again, a countless number of times.
And then she lost her powers, all the abilities that allow her to save the world time and time again. They just stopped working.
I could tell this devastated her and I was right. She said it made her feel like she was weak, like she was worthless. And soon after, she had asked me if I still loved her, if I still felt the same way about her now that she had lost her gift.
I told her what I will always tell her, what I will always feel in my heart...
Powers or no powers, I will always love her.
She will always be my El.
She will always be my superhero.
