fell asleep inside a fantasy, aegean

[Evenstar]

can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars,
I could really use a wish right now;

She hadn’t expected to see him here.

She doesn’t know at first if she’s glad that it’s him that finds her. He says her name in that sweet trill of his voice, and it is relief at first that floods through her. She looks up at him from behind the white hair that frames her jade-colored face, and for a moment she almost smiles. “Aegean,” she tries to keep the break from her voice, she tries to straighten herself and shake the fear and wearniness from showing. But she can see the way that he looks at her broken skin, at the scars and the places that had struggled to heal. And suddenly she is hot with shame, and she almost wishes that he was a stranger. Almost wishes he had never seen her as she was before and would not be able to recognize the irreparable damage.

Her head ducks away, hiding her wounded eyes from his sight as she bites back the tears that build in her throat. She wishes that her skin didn’t look as broken as she felt; she wishes her body didn’t so openly advertise how she felt on the inside. She had been so stupid and naive, and she had learned the hard way what could happen when you trusted everyone.

But she feels his shoulder press lightly against hers, and she lifts her face to look at him. When the stars begin to slowly shower around them it causes her breath to hitch in her throat, and for a moment, she is too wonderstruck to feel her pain. They glitter their reflection like broken fragments off her eyes, and she finally looks at him to whisper breathlessly, “How long have you been able to do this?” She finds his dark purple eyes with her own, and says with an almost wistful, nostalgic sigh, “It reminds me of that winter party. Do you remember? With the lights everywhere.” They had both been so young. They were still young, but she hadn’t expected to be shattered so fast.

I'm praying that this stairway leads somewhere like Heaven's door,
and when you get there don't look down

evenstar