In My Thought's, It's Always Us

This isn't one continuous story.

It doesn't stay in a single place, or follow a straight line from beginning to end. Instead, it moves - through cities, through years, through different versions of what our life could look like.

Each chapter is a new setting. A new stage. A new possibility.

In one, we're meeting after months apart, pretending the distance never touched us. In another, we're building a home somewhere we once only talked about over late-night calls. Sometimes it's something simple - grocery shopping together, sitting on a balcony after a long day, arguing about nothing and laughing five minutes later. Other times, it's the bigger plans - careers, responsibilities, growing into the people we're still becoming.

In reality, she's my girlfriend.

But in my mind, she's already my wife - not because we rushed anything, not because we're pretending, but because when I think about the future, she's already there. The decision feels made. The rest is just time.

This book is a collection of the dreams I tell her about. The plans we make. The "one day" conversations that deserve more than disappearing inside a message thread. It's romance, yes - but it's also intention. Growth. Patience. Building something slowly and meaning it.

Every chapter changes.
The place changes.
The circumstances change.

But one thing never does.

No matter the timeline, no matter the version of us, no matter how far apart we are right now -

it's always her.
It's always us.