And I Keep Holding On Novels & Stories

From simply ceasing to be a single person, dissolved into ten thousand others until there was nothing left that remembered its own name. I grab for the only thing that still feels like mine. The bond. Kael, steady and singular at the edge of everything, his fear for me cutting through ten thousand strangers' Tuesday afternoons like a single clear note in an orchestra playing every instrument at once. I hold onto that note. I do not let go.

We wait. We prepare. We hope. Dax is holding me. The Circle is strong. But the cold is patient. So are we.

I stood in the light, holding onto my bright future. The End

“Stay with me.” ***

What I Hold On To Rissa’s POV The word becoming does not leave when the noise settles. It stays. It sits in my chest like something alive, something waiting to see what I will do next. The fracture trembles above us, thinner than before but still there. Still listening. Still pulling. I can feel it watching me. Not the way a person watches. The way something vast notices a shift in balance. Mark is still holding me. His grip is tight, grounding, real in a way nothing else is right now.

He goes completely still. His arms stay at his sides. I can feel him breathing. I can feel him deciding. But his hands don't close around me. And I stand there holding on anyway. —

I could definitely imagine the rippling muscles under the right fitted shirt and a coat shrugged over it. His eyes landed on me and I stilled at my spot. There is something in them which fills my since with this dread and makes unwanted goosebumps all over me. “What are you doing here?” “I need to talk to you.” I wanted to thank the Lord and praise myself to not have stuttered in front of him. “Speak.” He said and I noticed his muscular hands pushed inside his pockets, the Rolex set on his large left wrist. “I cannot stay here like this.” He nodded at my words, eyes sharp at me.

Still demanding. But there was a new gravity now. Not pulling me apart. Holding me in place.

"just stay with me, please?" "Yes, i will stay no matter how hard this situation. I will stay, mahal." "Thanks, wife." Mas lalo niyang hinigpitan ang yakap dito. Mag-s-stay siya kahit na mahirap at kahit ano pa ang mangyari. Kahit ilang tao pa ang magbanta sa buhay niya hindi siya papayag na magkalayo silang dalwa.

ʜᴏ ʙᴀʙʏ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ɪ sᴄʀᴇᴀᴍ ᴡʜᴏ ᴅᴏ ɪ ʙᴇʟᴏɴɢ ʜᴏʟᴅ ᴍᴇ ᴛɪɢʜᴛ, ʜᴏʟᴅ ᴍᴇ sᴛɪʟʟ ʜᴏʟᴅ ᴍᴇ ɪɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀʀᴍs ᴀ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪ ғɪɴᴅ ᴘᴇᴀᴄᴇ