She was fire. I was storm. We were never built for calm. On a rain-slick night by the sea, I met Alex-reckless, magnetic, impossible to forget. What began as laughter and possibility grew into something brighter, heavier, and harder to hold. She warned me not to love her. I did anyway. A story of storms and flames, of nights that refuse to end, and of the fragile, defiant possibility of forever.