When we are young we never really think about the future or whats going to happen to us. We think we have our entire lives with the people we love. But when a time limit is placed upon us it's like the world was just put in fast forward. You feel like you don't have any time and you just want to quit before you start. When they are gone you feel like your little world just suffered a natural disaster. Like you were just pushed out of orbit. Like a moon without a planet.
All I've got is 3 months until we have to go our separate ways. After 4 years, it's all over in 3 months. She'll be across the country by September 1st. And I'll stay in California in this tiny country town with all the dropouts and I'll be working a dead end job with no ambition. All I can do is make the last 3 months count for us. For her.
They say love is patient, love is kind. But what they don't tell you is that love can also be devastating, merciless, and painfully fleeting.
Francis Brooks thought he knew the meaning of love-until Xianon Pearson walked into his life. In the short time they spent together, she became his world: the warmth in his mornings, the calm in his chaos, the reason his heart dared to hope. She was his laughter on the rainiest days, the softness in a world that often felt harsh, and the spark that made every ordinary moment extraordinary.
But Xianon was fragile in ways Francis could never fully protect her from. She carried secrets, illnesses, and burdens that threatened to pull them apart, no matter how tightly he held on. Every promise between them-every whispered "in a day or two"-was meant to be a lifeline, a hope that tomorrow would be brighter, that they could survive the storms life threw at them.
Yet life has a cruel way of testing love. Sometimes, the people we cherish most slip through our fingers despite our best efforts, leaving only memories and a heartache that refuses to fade. And sometimes, love demands a choice: to let go, or to fight even when the odds are stacked against you.
This is a story of love that burns fiercely, heartbreak that cuts painfully, and the resilience of a heart that refuses to surrender. It is about waiting when the one you love is gone, surviving when grief threatens to consume you, and finding the courage to keep living-even when tomorrow is uncertain.
Because sometimes, it only takes a day... or even just a day or two... to change everything, to leave a mark that lasts forever, and to teach us that love, in all its joy and pain, is always worth the fight.