Long I stood there waiting, wishing, fearing. Dreaming dreams that no immortal ever dared dream before. – Edgar Allan Poe

Preface

In that moment, my triumphant epiphany was not winning a game, but a simple clarity;
the realization that she had always been meant for me, and that my past months of torment had only proved how much I could not live without her. She had forever become the foundation of my existence.

Every instinct to the contrary had simply been a denial of the following truth:

I was now and would always be in love with her.