My hap­pily ever after. My crunchy peanut but­ter soul mate.

I think of you every day, but it’s never a con­scious act. More of a reflex in a con­tin­u­ous stream of thoughts: the cover of the album that’s play­ing, this tea is get­ting cold, maybe I’ll go out tomor­row, the way you looked the first time I saw you with your glasses on, I need to buy floss, the humid­i­fier needs refilling…

It’s never some­thing I can help. There are reminders of you in the colours of every sun­rise, in the cho­ruses of my songs, in the back of my mind when I’m left to my own devices. You became a habit I never wanted to break.

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I for­got to give you this one too. It was sup­posed to be us. We were sup­posed to own the sky, to be it’s chil­dren, danc­ing under clouds you’d later paint. Sharing head­phones on a bus, me in blue cardi­gan, you with fab­u­lous hair. Walking to the gro­cery store on sum­mer nights; you’d cook, I’d do the dishes. Catching up on each oth­ers days before drift­ing off to sleep. All the every­day stuff that would never feel ordi­nary again if your hand was in mine.

It wasn’t sup­posed to hap­pen like this.