Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt.

It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.

Just last night everything had seemed perfect. Well, not perfect. The world was still being tortured with Fey and Lost Souls, but, between Alex and me, everything was amazing. We were connected in every single way possible and not like how we were when we had the Stars energy in us. Everything was raw, breathtaking, moving, blissful. And then poof, once again the feelings are gone. Because hes gone.

Isn't everyone hiding something?

No one has ever needed me before because I’ve never let anyone that far in.

I cling to him like he's what keeps me thriving. Because he is.