#winter white

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Winter Loners…

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They always said Winter White was the fairest. Not just in face, but in heart. Soft-spoken. Gentle. Almost too good for the world.

There was something otherworldly about him.

The way snowflakes clung to his lashes without melting.

The way animals nestled into his lap without fear.

The way light always seemed to fall just right on his pale skin.

His voice was like a lullaby sung at twilight. His smile was the kind you remembered in dreams. He didn’t walk. He glided, like a wisp of frost through the woods.

But that was only the surface.

The truth was… Winter White never truly grew up.

He clung to childhood stories and fairytale endings like lifelines. Not because he was naive, but because the real world hurt too much to face.

When his father died and his stepmother, the Queen, began to withhold love and replace it with cold silences and manipulation, he learned to retreat inward.

Alone in his room, he whispered to the wind. Sang to birds. Pressed wishes into fallen leaves and sent them floating down the stream.

He told himself, “Someday, someone will come. Someone kind. Someone meant just for me.”

He needed to believe that. That if he just stayed gentle, if he stayed hopeful, the world would eventually reward him. Love would find him. Real love. True love. The kind in stories.

So when you entered his life, regardless of however it happened, it was over.

Maybe you accidentally stumbled into his cottage in the forest or helped him pick up scattered apples in the market. Or, you could have just simply smiled at him without any expectations.

Either way, in his heart, the story had begun. You were it. You were the one.

He didn’t fall in love with you gradually. He didn’t weigh pros and cons. He didn’t hesitate. He simply saw you, and that was enough.

“You found me,” he whispered under his breath later that night, arms wrapped around a pillow as the forest wind rattled his shutters. “You really found me.”

And from then on, everything he did was for you.

He wasn’t aggressive. He didn’t stalk you. But he was always there. As if by fate. As if the world bent to bring him near.

You mentioned once that you liked tea with honey, and the next time you visited his cottage, it was already steeping. You commented on the cold, and he handed you a shawl he’d embroidered with your initials. You said you liked a particular song, and days later, you heard him humming it beneath your window.

He doesn’t say you belong to him. Not out loud. That would be vulgar, wouldn't it? But deep down, he believes that love like this.

That destined love isn’t something you walk away from.

He believes the bond already exists. That it always has.

And so, even if you don’t love him back yet, he’s patient. He’s impossibly patient.

“These things take time,” he’ll say sweetly, brushing snow from your shoulders with gloved fingers.

“But the heart always remembers.”

Still, you notice it. The way he watches you just a second too long. The way he never quite leaves, always lingering somewhere nearby with an excuse on his lips. The way the forest paths seem to bend, leading you back to his door even when you swear you were headed elsewhere.

If you put distance between you, he doesn’t get angry.

He gets quiet.

Withdrawn. Pale in a way that even snow can't match. His hands tremble more. He forgets things. The fire in the hearth burns too low. He sits by the window, eyes locked on the trees, waiting for your silhouette to return.

He won’t say he’s scared of being abandoned.

He’ll just ask, over and over,

“Will you come tomorrow?”

“You promise?”

“You’ll stay awhile next time, won’t you?”

He asks it like he’s asking you to stay alive.

Because that’s what you are to him now.

His lifeline.

His proof that fairytales are real.

His obsession isn’t loud or twisted. It’s soft and aching. It hurts him to need you so much, but he can’t stop. He doesn’t want to stop. If he stopped needing you, what would be left?

He doesn't think he could survive that kind of loneliness again.

He weaves you into everything. Into the scarf he knits by the fire. Into the songs he sings to the forest. Into the dreams he writes in the margins of old books.

Even the mirror, the one that once told the Queen she was the fairest, now reflects your name when he asks what his future holds.

You are everything.

But even sweetness can suffocate.

Even gentleness, when obsessive, becomes a prison made of lullabies and silk.

He will never trap you physically. He could never hurt you.

But he will make you feel like staying. With his soft voice. His trembling hands. His too-tender eyes. The way he smiles with such fragile hope every time you walk in, as though you’ve rescued him from the end of the world.

And maybe you have.

Maybe that’s why you stay.

Because how do you tell someone like him, someone who’s known nothing but abandonment and still chose to love so purely, that you need space?

That you can’t breathe with all the closeness? That the fantasy he’s spun around you is starting to feel like a noose made of roses?

You can’t.

Not without shattering him.

And deep down, he knows. He knows he’s asking too much of you. That no one can carry the weight of someone else’s salvation. But knowing doesn’t stop him.

He just clings harder.

Because if you were to leave... if you were to walk out of his life completely, he would crumble.

And what would be left of Winter White then?

Just snow.

Just silence.

Just a boy with no story.

So he keeps loving. Sweetly. Devotedly. Desperately.

Because in his heart, you are his true love.

ALIOUNE