🖊️ We Were Beautiful

To: (123) 456-7890 -- From: Asteri

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Song: [18 - Anson Seabra]

Book: [The Wicker King - K. Ancrum]

Keywords: [friends, life, love, time]

"We weren't okay, but we had each other."

My trio. The Threesome, homosexual tendencies, whatever you want to call us. Whatever we called ourselves. We were the ones who stuck together, through everything; who became the best of friends.

For a moment there, it was love.

Asteri: a teenager too old for their 16-year-old body, with the soul of a star and a tendency to save people who couldn't be saved.

Adonis: a boy with a mind full of darkness and longing, waiting to be loved right and creating the most beautiful art while he waited.

Evelyn: a girl with a heart so big she wanted to comfort the world, though in her exuberance she couldn't admit her pain to herself.

It was just the three of us. Through all the darkest days, through divorces and custody battles, disownment threats and breakdowns, panic attacks and depression. And through the happiest ones, where the sun came out and we were together, and the world seemed to shrug off its shadows and let us three dance in the beautiful light.

It didn't last long, really. A year and a half, abouts. But it's been said that "some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person." And oh, we were beautiful. Crazy; yes. Fucked up in the head; yeah, quite a bit. But beautiful? Oh, yes we were.

Especially looking back on it. There were so many dark days, and so many happy ones; I hope that there were more happy ones than sad. But no matter what, we had each other. No matter what was happening, I knew I could count on my 2 favorite people, our trio.

And it's okay that it didn't last. Some things aren't meant to - usually the best things. I needed them then; my loves. And it would've been nice to stick together, the three of us. But I'm okay now. I have my community and my place, and my confidence in myself. I can go be my next best self knowing that for a moment, I found love in the two brightest stars in my sky, and all three of us held tight to that love for as long as we could. 

We were beautiful.

We were beautiful, y'know. Even though we didn't last.

--Asteri ⭐️