Without You

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tragedy brought us together but something stronger made me want to stay.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Julian was the boy next door. My brother's best friend he fit with my family in ways I never could. While he and Rhett went on to play house I left the only life I knew desperate for a fresh start.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until everything changed.Heartache came along and the aftermath of my brother's death was here to stay. I was now face to face with Julian more than I ever wanted to be.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Being around him brought up all my insecurities forced me to deal with hard truths and conjured up feelings I had no business entertaining. He wasn't the man I thought I knew. He was complex and layered and inherently beautiful in all the ways I'd never noticed.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not on another person.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not on another man.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not until him.</span></p>