After I said all my lengthy goodbyes at the airport and promised to text both my parents and Tyler as soon as I landed, I boarded my flight and headed to my uncertain future. I wasn't sure what to expect, but what I did know was I was going to match it head-on. I was a Collins, after all.
A Collins doesn't run from a challenge, we go through it.
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The room was dark, his approaching shadow was faint. Almost not visible at all. My mind is playing tricks on me. I nestled deeper into my warm fluffy pillow, telling myself it was a trick of the outside lights. Just casting shadows where they didn't belong.
I felt his fingertips graze my face delicately. As though he has done it a hundred times before. As though I were his to claim.
I release an involuntary shudder in my slumber.
"I'll al
