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Part one, Scar’s POV:
In the luminous light, I saw your face:
A teasing tilt to your lips, a glint in your eyes that I knew would be the death of me.
You said you’d follow me to the ends of the earth,
So I led you to my ideas, my pursuits, the empty desert that was all I had to call my own.
Until you.
Until you joined me here, filled my desert
With laughs and smiles and dances and discovery…
And in our joyous days, I didn’t realize until far too late that I had fallen.
And you fell too, to our youthful and naive plans.
Despite everything, despite the fact you’d already followed me to the ends of the earth,
You stayed.
And despite everything, despite the fact that I…
Despite the fact that I had grown fond of you.
Fate had given you a test, and you didn’t pass.
In the luminous light of your face and of the setting sun:
A tilt to my vision, to the ring around us,
I’ll let you be the death of me.
If only you’ll fall for me one last time.
Part 2, Grian’s POV:
In the luminous light, I saw your face:
Your past etched in silvery scars, signs of rambunctious disregard and silly mistakes.
A mistake of my own pushed us together, the best one I’ve ever made.
A push and a pull, a magnetic dance.
Was I too much for you? Were you too much for me?
We were a science experiment put on by some middleschooler
Who wanted nothing more than to see how long I’d clean up after you
And how long it’d take (not much at all, it seems) for me to fall for you.
Even when I’d finished amending for my past mistakes, I had stayed with you:
I held your hands, kissed your knuckles, curled your fingers around lilacs and poppies…
But I never was enough, was I?
You shattered my heart into smithereens.
But seeing you now, lying red in the oranges and pinks of sunset, I can’t help but wonder:
Could we have been better?
Soulmates, even?
Maybe we’ll be soulmates a few lives down the line.
In this life, though, I’ll have to settle for simply falling for you one last time.