Even if I had not been able to spend this last night in the arms of my lover or with the renewed fortitude of my family in the way of either my parents or my sibling; a relationship I had not cared to revisit at this current moment from the betrayal still raw and the wounds still deep, I would at least find a consolidating peace as I slipped into the seat of my flight to return to Ohio. For years, all I had dreamed of was going to college somewhere glamorous with culture and budding knowledge I was set to learn in my time in study, but at this particular moment, all I wished to do was find a way to contact Shane. But after hours of waiting in the airport and producing voicemails and unanswered texts, I believed wholeheartedly that he had given up on us; not from cowardness or a change of h
