Crabcakes and Maple Syrup

In which the girl with hair of fire and the boy with ever-changing eyes suffer through life together.

I felt like my heart was finding a way to tear through my chest except there was a wall of steel blocking it's path of escape. It seemed as if my lungs were going to burst out of my ribs, shattering them into a million pieces until I was nothing but a sliver of rotten flesh. My eardrums were borderline bursting and gushing like volcanoes and my lips were going to be torn right off, taking my teeth and hairs with them. The hole in my soul was finally full, and it was the most exhilarating and breath taking thing in my entire life.