Chapter 16
I Only Ever Looked for You
I didn’t know if we would ever find our way back to this.
To each other, to this version of us that still knows how to hold, how to stay, how to trust. So much time passed.
Too much silence. Too much damage. But that night, when you looked at me, not like someone who had left, but like someone who had never stopped waiting, I understood.
We had both been surviving in the absence of something sacred.
And now, in the quiet between your breath and mine, I know this: you are still my home. You always were. And this time, I am not afraid to be touched by you. This time, I let you see everything. Because this time, we both know: we never stopped belonging to each other.
The streams of water came again—this time to bring us back.