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“Somewhere, someone is searching for you in every person they encounter. You will mean something to yourself one day. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not the next day, but you will fill that ache in your soul, eventually, Brantley Thornton. I swear it to you. I promise you.”
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“We sat in silence.
We sat in silence, but our hearts were not silent, our souls were not silent, our brains were not silent. So we sat in silence and I had everything to say, but no way to say it, and he had nothing to say, and every way to say it. When he was silent, his silence was loud— the loudest thing in the world.”
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We sat in silence, but our hearts were not silent, our souls were not silent, our brains were not silent. So we sat in silence and I had everything to say, but no way to say it, and he had nothing to say, and every way to say it. When he was silent, his silence was loud— the loudest thing in the world.”
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“You, Brantley Thornton, have so much time to be who you want to be. You have so much time to figure out life and learn as you go.”
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“My life... it did mean something. And though it may have not mattered in the grand scheme of things, per se, it did matter. It took me a long time to come to terms with that, but it did. It did matter while I was still here, still living and breathing about as a human being would. And most of all, at the end of the day, not only did it matter in the grand scheme of things, but it mattered to me.”
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“Brantley Thornton, the world is entirely in your hands. But only if you want it to be.”
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“Yet Caspian Marks stood there and I gave him the benefit of the doubt, and I really do think that it was because my soul was telling me, now this one, this one is special. This one is different. This one... he is a life changer. He is supposed to save lives. He will change your life.”
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“At that moment, and in every moment following, it seemed natural to just... put my hand in his. Natural to sway our bodies back and forth to the sound of the music; those same bodies that seemed to be longing for this close proximity. Like they had been aching for it. Burning for it. Striving for it since the moment we met.”
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“And his eyes, instead of the stunningly innocent, crystal blue color that they usually were, they were now the color of a fierce, stormy gray sky. Thunder boomed in his lungs, clouds obscured his mind, and lightning shocked his heart.”
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“I am forever grateful that I touched you in a way and temporarily changed that life of yours, Brantley Thornton. With that in the back of my mind, I will be able to live in this world and continue on with life, while you were mine, and you are no longer in it.”
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“She is deserving of many things in this world, Caspian Marks. Including such a phenomenal man as yourself. But she is also deserving of someone who will make her world light up, when she thought she would see absolutely none again. So if you cannot brighten up her world, do not enter it and allow it to become any dimmer than it already is. You love her, and you love her hard. And you take care of her, especially when she cannot take care of herself.”
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“I’m letting you go. I’m freeing you. You are no longer mine, Caspian Marks. And when I look back at it, you never were, and I don’t know why for any fraction of a second I would have come to that conclusion. You have never belonged to me. You have never belonged to anyone. But you do, and always have and probably always will, belong to this earth. You are the universe’s child. You will belong to this earth and I will belong to the stars, for now.”
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“I wanted to shove him off of me and tell him that he couldn’t love me, that he didn’t know me long enough, and that we were too young and he was too foolish and he didn’t know what he was talking about. He may have not known me long enough, but he knew me better than anyone else. And we may have been too young, but he was wise beyond the ages. And what he said may have been foolish, but he was the least foolish person I knew. And I couldn’t say he didn’t know what he was talking about, because Caspian Marks always knew what he was talking about, and he knew that he loved me.”
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“All I could’ve wished was that more people told you you were worth being loved, I really do. You still are, even now that you’ve passed and are longer gone than I’d like to come to terms with. And it is because of your worthiness of love that I will continue loving you until I take my very last breath. But this is not our goodbye, Brantley Thornton. Because I know I will simply see you in the stars later on.”
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“And after time, after feeling utterly special by one individual, I realized it was never about being remembered by all. It was always about being remembered and making a significant impact on those who you have loved, and those who loved you.”
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“To find someone who I could be myself with. Find someone who could complete me in ways that I could not fully complete myself. There was a chance you could have been the most horrible person in the world, and guess what? I still would have taken that chance. I wanted to take those odds, and I am glad, I am so glad I did.”
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“You are one of the very scarce souls that are left truly pure- hearted, Caspian Marks. I need you to promise me, to stop depending on me, thriving on our friendship, and detach yourself from me, because I will not allow myself, I will not allow this—what is to come—to corrupt you. Corrupt all that you are and all that you can be.”
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“When you look up to the sky that you habitually admire, and observe the stars that drift through the night sky, and you find one star, one star in particular that is gleaming noticeably bright, know that that is me saying hello. Make me proud, my star, Brantley Thornton.”
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“You are crazy, Brantley Thornton.” He nudged me on the shoulder as we made our way to the cafeteria. “Absolutely crazy to believe that you are not worth being amazed by.”
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“He ran his hands down my hair. He put his head on top of mine and said, “Someday, I think you would have looked back at this very moment and realized how strong you truly were. I think you would have realized how capable you were of getting past this. It may have not been soon, Brantley Thornton, but I promise you, I promise you, it would have been one day. This is just a chapter of your life, Brantley. Not your entire story. But you have to get through this part to be able to see the rest.”
I grabbed his hands and I traced my thumb over the places where ridges and bumps and calluses should have been and then I drew his hands to my chest, to feel my then beating heart. Tears dripped and poured down my face and I didn’t dare to wipe them. And I told him, “I do not have one day.”
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I grabbed his hands and I traced my thumb over the places where ridges and bumps and calluses should have been and then I drew his hands to my chest, to feel my then beating heart. Tears dripped and poured down my face and I didn’t dare to wipe them. And I told him, “I do not have one day.”
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“You made me so happy, but that does not mean I was a happy person. It does not mean I had a happy mind and a happy soul. The trick to living life is to find happiness and love in everything you do, Caspian Marks. And I did. I found love and I found happiness in you, but you, you were the sole person alive who was a contributor to that. I could not find love and happiness in everything that I did, because you were the only thing I knew that was worthy of love.”
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“His breath inhaled something—something I could have only assumed was me—and exhaled it profoundly back into the night. It almost seemed like he was trying to blow it out of his system to be selfless, so it would flow through the earth and nestle and take root somewhere safe. So there was something of me, lasting forever.”
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“You got one big heart, honey. And a kind soul, too. It’s just your mind, baby. Your mind, hon... it’s simply corrupt.”
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“I didn’t cry, nor shed the merest of tears. I wouldn’t allow myself to. Though within, deep within, I was cradled in a little ball with my knees tucked into my chest, a puddle of tears surrounding me, as though I was a little girl who could not handle her emotions.
That was true. I could not handle my emotions. Could not handle the weight of the world or the mass of Caspian Marks’ love.”
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That was true. I could not handle my emotions. Could not handle the weight of the world or the mass of Caspian Marks’ love.”
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“I was rain, not only to myself, but to Caspian Marks, too.
I wasn’t the kind of gloomy rain that was unwanted and unappreciated, though. Not to him. I was the kind that was necessary when you felt shriveled and dry; in need of something to give you energy and strength to lighten and flourish again. The kind that was like a breath of fresh air. The kind of rain that after, created rainbows. The kind of rain that was crucial—absolutely crucial—in romance movies when the most dramatic kiss of the century was cued to happen.
I was Caspian Mark’s rain. I gave him energy and I revived him. I gave him air to breathe. My coldness reminded him that life was not always sunny or ideal, but would still be good, anyway. The rain, I suppose I was.”
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I wasn’t the kind of gloomy rain that was unwanted and unappreciated, though. Not to him. I was the kind that was necessary when you felt shriveled and dry; in need of something to give you energy and strength to lighten and flourish again. The kind that was like a breath of fresh air. The kind of rain that after, created rainbows. The kind of rain that was crucial—absolutely crucial—in romance movies when the most dramatic kiss of the century was cued to happen.
I was Caspian Mark’s rain. I gave him energy and I revived him. I gave him air to breathe. My coldness reminded him that life was not always sunny or ideal, but would still be good, anyway. The rain, I suppose I was.”
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“He thought about it for a moment and laughed. Laughed this vibrant, spirited laugh that I wanted to hear on a loop for the rest of my days. It was the kind of laugh that you wanted playing from a stereo and having it on full blast while you drove in the car. The kind of laugh you wanted to be reminded of whenever you forgot it, which would be hard to forget, but in the case that you did, an instant reminder was in store. The kind that would never get old, no matter how many times you heard it. The kind of laugh that made your heart want to dance. That was his laugh. What his laugh was to me.”
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“The world went quiet. And so did my heart.”
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“I am crying because I do not want to lose you, Brantley Thornton. I do not want to lose you. Do you not get that? I don’t, and I can’t. Not in this lifetime, not in the next. Not now, and not ever.”
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“I didn’t care that my world was spinning and felt out of control. All I wanted to make sure of was that his world was intact. I didn’t care about anything at that moment except him.”
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“I am not okay with you attempting to fix a girl who is already broken beyond any sense of repair, Caspian Marks. It is not your job to repair what you have not broken. It is not your job to take time out of your life, your very meaningful life, all to help a girl who has never asked for it. You are always trying to rescue me like some damsel in distress when I do not want to be saved. I refuse to take away from you living your life, when I am already letting mine slip out of my hands, willingly. Let me go, Caspian Marks. You have to let me be.”
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“I may be leaving this earth, but I will remain in the stars. I will watch over you and protect you, and when it is your time and you are ready to find me once more, you will fall into my arms. And when you do, all the planets and asteroids and stars and specks of dust in this endless universe will sigh in unison, because they will all know that our souls found their way together—somehow, someway, just as they were always supposed to.”
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