Forever and Always (When the Stars Align Universe)

Chapter 1 Mackenzie’s Journal

It’s a new year, but somehow everything is still the same.

A hole in my chest, an endless empty pit.

For once, my siblings have looked up long enough to come home for the holidays, but I wonder if their pain is the same as the one deep in my belly?

No jolly Saint Nick, no warm hugs when the ball drops, and all I can think is this—

When death finds me, I hope it holds my hand.

Ushering me into the promised land.

Beneath bended wing, and stutter-shook stars.

May our still heartbeats never grow apart.

“Come now, my love,” speaks Death’s warm embrace.

And I’ll follow it to a bloodborn place.

Death welcomes me in, breathing life anew.

As we find our eternity under midnight skies.