3.3. I'll Carry the World on My Shoulders


"Just because you love someone
doesn't mean you have to be
involved with them.
Love is not a bandage to cover wounds."
It shouldn't be true,
I know that.
But someone has to
give up
on the one...
on the one they...
love.
Please help us, Thalia...

"Henrietta..."
He asked, hands clasped
down near his feet.

"Yes?"
Her voice was distant
but her attention
stuck to him.

They were alone
behind the school,
sitting and trying...
trying...
to read through
good literature.

Both minds weren't
truly
there.

"Do you
love
him?"

The thin air
grew thinner
thinner,
thinner,
until the world was
space.

"Yes,"

Joshua bit his lips,
sealing them.

He didn't ask which
—Logan or Red—
she truly liked.