@knowseverythingaboutyou - 42. spot!fy wrapped
Afterglow - Bisken
Oh, I won't be silent and I won't let go
I will hold on tighter 'til the afterglow
And we'll burn so bright 'til the darkness softly clears
He hadn’t not seen it coming, but true to his nature, he’d optimistic that this was just another one of those things that they’d overcome. Their relationship has been rife with arguments . . . but for Steve, most relationships are. Whether they’re professional or personal, he’s gone his whole life going against the grain. Questioning people. Asking for more. Asking for better. Demanding it of people. Maria had to have known that when she go together with him. And they’d done their best to keep their working lives separate to their personal, and for a while it had worked. The only arguments they really ever had were to do with decisions made at work, anyway . . . but they’d been kidding themselves thinking that work for people like them could be compared to a regular day job. That it could ever truly be separated from their personal lives. They were one and the same.
‘ Did you expect me to take this quietly ? ’ He’s standing up, defensive all over, despite projecting his usual stance of confidence. A hand on his hip, the other fiddling with an ornament on the mantle they’d picked up at a flea market, a copper dragonfly riding a bicycle with a fruit basket attached to the front that Steve had fallen in love with once he saw it. ‘ I know things are difficult right now, but we’re going to get through it. We always do . . . don’t we ? ’