Unbound

My dear draco,

I never planned to fall for you.
You were never meant to be the place I felt safest.

And yet - somewhere between the fights, the silence, the nights that broke us open - you became home.

I see you when you pretend to be cruel.
I see the weight you carry when you think no one is looking.
And I love you not despite the darkness in you, but because I recognize it.

You challenge me.
You frighten me.
You make me feel more alive than I ever meant to be.

If loving you is a mistake, then it is one I choose - again and again.
Because even in the chaos, even when the world burns around us,
I know this much:

I would find you in every lifetime.
I would fight you in every one of them.
And I would still fall - every time.

- Alma