BETTER THAN NEVER

Isaiah Mackenzie Del Luna is a soul attired in the silken folds of whispers. He has always believed in the poetry of devotion: soft smiles, the night-long musings under the moon's silvery beams, and hands that tremble not for weakness but feel too much. There is, of course, André Joaquim McClarren-his very antithesis in every way. He is made of steel and structure, a designer of worlds on both blueprints and on the ground. Where Isaiah dreams, André calculates. Where Isaiah hesitates, André walks forward with all the confidence in the world. Yet, for all these differences between them, they found something that neither equations nor poetry can define-a desperate, reckless fight for each other's happiness.

Is all this worth fighting for? Does happiness lie in the same fleeting nature as the twilight Isaiah loves so much and the future André has every plan for, so uncertain that all battles seem pointless? Do the lines between right and wrong blur when they are drunk in their devotion, and how long before they exhaust themselves, their love, and the thing they fight to preserve?

Isaiah thinks it's an amount of pain worth going through because he's not sure if things will come out right or wrong. André believes in action, in doing, in a choice to be taken and upheld. When the world tests them, when it calls for them to choose either their happiness or the other's, would they still believe in the fight? Or would they crack beneath the weight of a love they neither of them knows how to hold onto?

Date Started: MARCH 22, 2024
Date Finished:

First Published Due to Accidentally Deletion of Prologue to Chapter 12: MAY .10, 2024- JANUARY. 18, 2025