He was like a four-leaved clover in a field of grass, beautiful, not just because he was lucky but because he was different.
He was like a patch of fresh snow in a mushy, trodden ice-rink, almost too pure to last.
He was like a voice among a bedlam of screams, quiet but strong all the same.
He was like the last flowers of the season, gone but not quite.
He was everything I ever needed.
But time is such a trickster, isn't it? It shuts the door the moment you think you've figured out the way...
> I swear he was standing there.
Just for a second.
One blink - and he was gone.
But in that second, everything shifted. The air, the silence, me.
I've never seen him before, but my soul did. It recognized him before I even knew what that meant.
Now, he's in my dreams. Not like a memory - like a presence.
Watching. Reaching. Waiting.
I don't know his name. I don't even know if he's real.
All I know is... I was never supposed to see him.
And now I can't forget.