Run, Bella, run. I love you too much, for your good or mine.

I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak,” he laughed.

Now you know," I said lightly, and shrugged. "No one's ever loved anyone as much as I love you.

Will you be?” I asked, suddenly anxious. “Will you really be here?” “As long as you want me,” he assured me. “I'll always want you,” I warned him. “Forever.

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now.

For almost ninety years I’ve walked among my kind, and yours… all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren’t alive yet.

Here's to responsibility, twice a week.