Loving You Is the Best of Times

In the face of adversity, we have choices. Staying true to ourselves is what makes us strong. He saved her mother's life and bought three years of her youth. She said, “I traded my youth for what I needed. My body is my own. I'm not stealing or robbing anyone, and if I choose this willingly, then I have nothing to regret.” She loved life, and whatever life she chose, she made vivid and fulfilling. She was always cheerful, able to find hope even in adversity. He always arrived after dark and left in the middle of the night, like a beast of the shadows. One was darkness, the other light, yet they became entangled. He treated life like a game, while she saw him as her first love. But then he suddenly realized that no matter how time changed or the world turned, she would always be the clearest, brightest stream in his heart. The cruelest part of love isn't parting, but how memories keep us rooted in place, making us think we can still go back...