Half Lights

"We're half lights, you know," she said as she stood beside him.

The town was brightly lit, despite it being almost midnight. The night breeze ruffled through her hair leaving parts of her neck exposed and she clenched her fists, trying to keep herself sane enough to not lean into his warmth.

She could feel him still for a moment and then he swallowed.
"What?" He whispered so low she almost barely heard him.

The sky was a dark blue-black against the specks of gold. Mallory couldn't help but feel disappointed with herself for the amounts of times she never stopped to admire the sky. A day where someone doesn't stop for a second and appreciate the sky is a day wasted, she used to think.

"We're half lights, Toryn," she repeated softly. He turned to her now, holding her gaze firmly. "They have tried to break us and they have succeeded," she said before stopping to swallow. The thought of what she had just admitted made swallowing hard and she grimaced. "We have spent all this time hiding in this half light, trying to either find closure in it or else run from it."
She pushed at the barrier in her brain but it did not budge. The mental suffocation was close to driving her absolutely mad, when he turned to her properly.

"We might be half lights, Mallory," he muttered as he stepped closer to her before continuing, "But that doesn't mean we can't be half lights together," he said as his fingers brushed hers.

It was so light at first, but then their fingers slid around each other and soon their hands closed around each other. It was a mere moment of closure, tainted by affection and ill-fate, however together, they might have just become one burning flame.
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