NOT MY CHARACTERS ALL CHARACTERS BELONG TO SHANNON MESSENGER!! This fanfic includes mature content but I've labeled the chapters to give a heads up:) Here's a short bio: "I felt you," she whispered against his shoulder. "Even when everything else was gone, I felt something pulling me back." "That was me," he said softly, playing with strands of her hair, "I wasn't letting you go." They stayed like that, breathing each other in. A year of fear. A year of silence. A year of emptiness slowly dissolving between them. She leaned back just enough to look at him again. "You waited," she said. "A year," he admitted. Her eyes filled with a mixture of sorrow and awe. "You shouldn't have had to." "I would have waited longer," he said. "For as long as it took." Her thumb brushed gently along his cheek. "We've never been easy," she murmured. "We've fought. We've broken. We've almost lost each other more times than I can count." He nodded, because that was true. But she didn't look regretful. She looked certain. Well, they knew one thing now, there relationship was only perfect because it wasn't. And that's how it should be.

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘤 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱, 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘷𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘱𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘥 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦. #1 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘧𝘦 (11-11-22) #1 𝘪𝘯 𝘒𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘤 (11-3-22)