Page 89 of Forever Mann

Yeah, that job changed me.

My fingers absently traced my lips before I even knew what was happening. I stopped my thoughts about New Year’s Eve in Bear Valley before they got away from me.

Or, even scarier, maybe it hadn’t changed me at all.

Maybe it just made me admit a few things to myself.

Seeing two people in love like that had been life alteringfor me in a way, spinning everything on a tilt. I didn’t have parents like that, or friends who fell in love like that. I had never contemplated something like that for myself, either.

But, Jack and Perrin?

That was soul-connection deep, life-partner, one-in-a-lifetime shit. Thing was, if you had asked me before, I would have easily said I didn’t believe in it - it simply didn’t exist.

As long as it didn’t exist, what was I missing?

My thoughts that somewhere, some day, I would find someone to build a life with were sustaining until I saw that connection and now that I knew it was out there, I couldn’t be satisfied with anything less.

Because with Jack and Perrin, that love wasreal.

And maybe there were a few things in my life that weren’t.

Maybe more than a few.

The End.