<p><em style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">Gabby</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">Looking back, I should have seen the signs. Perhaps I did, but I subconsciously chose to ignore them.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">From the time I was ten, when I first met Dylan, I knew he was my forever guy. Back then, I couldn't put words to what I was feeling, but, as the years progressed, I came to recognize it for what it was-soul-deep love. The kind only very few people ever get to experience. Dylan was more than just my best friend, my childhood sweetheart, my lover.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">He was my soul mate.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">We were carved from the same whole-destined to be together forever.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">Until he changed.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">And I believed I was no longer good enough.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">Until he shattered me so completely, it felt like I ceased to exist.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">And I'd never experienced such heart-crushing pain.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">Until he leveled me a second time, and I truly wanted to die.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">But I had to stay strong because I wasn't alone in this cruel twist of fate.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">I look to the sky, pleading with the stars, begging someone to tell me what I should do because I don't know how to deal with this. I don't know how to cope when my forever has changed, and I can't help wondering if I had seen the signs earlier, if I'd pushed him, would it have been enough to save us?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(24, 24, 24, 1)">Or had fate already decided to alter our forever?</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p>