Ruby Slippers (21)

Fi-Fi Nix, that's how the boy decided to call himself into this new life. Phoenix, the mystical bird, rising back from the ashes after its own death.

Phoenix, death and rebirth, beginnings and ends and new beginnings. Death and life and rebirth, in an endless circles.

He was dead. He was dead in the real sense of the world, dead to the world, dead to the law, and maybe, even for himself. But he is here, yet again, himself but not quite. A new man, a new person, a new life. And a new family, a family that's not by blood, but it's so much more…

Just like with you.

You family, the one you had by blood, never cared about you, you were just a mean to end for your own father, a way to get money, to get richer and richer, just like that father wanted to make an example out of his own son. But at least, you've been lucky- Angela loved you for the man you were, the man she thought you could be, she loved you at your worst… this young man didn't even had this. Even his lover was using him. everybody was using him, and so, he did it, he worked hard and found the strength and the courage to beat them at their own game… He found a new family for himself with these drags, and with them, he created a new life for himself, leaving his old shell behind.

Studying the mesmerized woman at your side, you wonder if you'll ever be that strong as well, so strong to build a new life for yourself with this new family that's not yours by blood but by friendship and respect and trust and so much more, so much you can't even say the words yet.