I was naked under his gaze. Skin was just that: skin. But to see your soul stripped, laid bare for the eyes of someone you barely knew-that was terrifying.

I so desperately wanted to be his gravity, to hold him on this earth and keep him from leaving me.

I don't love anything." - Parker "I know." - Everett

I'm not talking about the scars that separate your skin, Parker. I'm not blind, I can see those. I'm talking about the scars much deeper than that. The scars that exist within you. The ones you actually try to hide.

I don't want to merely exist, Parker. I want to live. I want to leave the world with that one sweet moment.