You and I are bound. We will be each other’s salvation, or each other’s doom.

Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absoluteky betray me.

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.

It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.

A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it," he said.

I don't need a guarantee if I have you.