7. Pure

Vaughn had never really known pure until he had met Chelsea.

His life had been filled with alcohol and violence and pain—things that he could never associate with the word "pure". His past had been cruel and harmful and had formed him into the mask of cruel words and distant thoughts, closing him off from both the world and his future.

But when he met Chelsea, everything changed.

Suddenly, instead of far-away thoughts, he was filled with a pureness that he had never known before. Seeing Chelsea each morning was like taking a clean, pure breath of fresh air; her cerulean eyes fluttering open under the pressure of his fingertips that danced along her face, brushing the curls from her forehead in appreciation.

She stared at him.

And he stared back as he took a breath of the pure air of the morning, as he would for the rest of his life.