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“If you find a girl that you really like, don’t change your life for her. Get her to fit into the life you have. She has to accept what you stand for and who you are. If you change for her, it won’t last.” The sweetest smile crept across her lips. “You deserve a woman that will stand beside you, not hold you back.”

There was no normal woman on this planet that would accept my lifestyle. I knew that. But she was talking like there was a normal woman out there for me who would be all the things I needed. She was wrong though. The woman that would stand beside me, that I would protect with my life, well, she had to special. She’d have to have a heart of gold, but the armor of a warrior. I think Layla was right. There was a woman out there that would accept me, and I was looking directly at her.

Layla stepped outside and started walking to her car. Why did I get a feeling like those were her last words to me?

I quickly pushed the door open wider and took off after her. Something was off, I could feel it.

“Layla?”

She had just opened her car door and she turned back to look at me.

“I’ll see you at school tomorrow, won’t I?” I had a feeling like I wouldn’t for some reason. Like she was about to disappear.

She smiled. “Yeah, of course.” And with that said she got in the car. She closed the door and wouldn’t look at me.

I had one question going through my head: had she just lied to me?