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'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars,
I'm gonna give you my heart.
'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars,
'Cause you light up the path.
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For nine years, Aeryn Morose and Michael Clifford spent every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday lying beneath the night sky and tracing constellations like it was second nature. It was their thing, a ritual stitched into childhood and carried into adolescence. Their relationship was, by all accounts, strictly platonic. The hugs, the lingering touches, the soft laughter between them-none of it meant anything. Not like that.
But somewhere along the way, Michael began to drift. His hair cycled through the entire rainbow twice over, his warmth dulled to something distant, and the boy Aeryn grew up with felt suddenly out of reach... but not gone. Never gone
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Started: January 28, 2018
Finished: March 6, 2018
Revised & Edited: Dec 2, 2025
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