Regularities ✔

He looks so proud, standing there with a grin and a sunflower. "Take over the world for me." He says.

And I knew that for him, I'd do anything.

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Castor Rex: He's snarky, quiet but lovable. A real keeper, despite being an asshole. He doesn't like his life to be on display, but he'll show off Jazz every change he gets. People respect him, even if he tries to avoid them.

Jasper Red: He's polite, nice and loving. An open book. He fills his life up with Castor's love, and he likes it. People love him, they can't help it.

Castor naturally has this... this energy about him that seems to heal other people. All his life, he's attracted damaged people to him just like his mom.

But he doesn't heal them. He's been drained or hurt by them.

So when he chooses to be around someone, when he chooses to spend his time with them, it's a much bigger deal than it seems.

Jasper Red is his person, and has been for the past year.

They've spent months getting to know each other, they're together, and now they have to spend this next year making sure it stays that way.

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As someone who went from a guy with only one friend but more people willing to hurt me than I could count on one hand to having countless people in my corner and a loving boyfriend, I think I'm particularly qualified to say that however unfair, life isn't nearly as bad as people say.

It's a lot like falling in love.

People say that if you fall in love when you're young that it will just hurt, that you'll fall out of it and everything will feel wrong. But that's not true.

Jasper Red knows every inch of my body, he's seen every scar and it doesn't make me feel any more bare or vulnerable.

Instead it makes me feel the most valued I've ever been.