pandakatiefominz
Wraith
Dark rolled his eyes, "Do you hear your brother, my darling? He is trying to guilt me." Then he looked at Xander again, "If I chose to, would that not also be because I was pressured into it?"
"I don't think anybody 'knows how.' Except babies, maybe, I think we're all born with the capacity, and then... life happens. And regardless of what we might want or think, we're all a little bit jaded. Dark certainly didn't know how to love, when we met. Nobody had ever even told him those words until Cooger. We're all just trying our best, and learning, and we keep on learning until we take our last breath. That is how life goes, for better or worse. If you do decide you want something other than platonic, then I'd recommend you take a deep breath, and take things slowly, know it probably will not immediately be the one you marry, because most people's first relationship isn't--did you know Dark wasn't my first kiss?--but enjoy it for what it is in the moment. If you spend your entire life with your hands protecting your head to protect yourself from when the sky starts falling, you'll never get to enjoy how lovely the sky is." She paused, thinking about that analogy from her perspective, and then said, "Just like you don't know how to give that sort of love, I don't know what the sky looks like. But I trust it is as beautiful as people say, because it's a much nicer world to live in that way."
"I don't think anybody 'knows how.' Except babies, maybe, I think we're all born with the capacity, and then... life happens. And regardless of what we might want or think, we're all a little bit jaded. Dark certainly didn't know how to love, when we met. Nobody had ever even told him those words until Cooger. We're all just trying our best, and learning, and we keep on learning until we take our last breath. That is how life goes, for better or worse. If you do decide you want something other than platonic, then I'd recommend you take a deep breath, and take things slowly, know it probably will not immediately be the one you marry, because most people's first relationship isn't--did you know Dark wasn't my first kiss?--but enjoy it for what it is in the moment. If you spend your entire life with your hands protecting your head to protect yourself from when the sky starts falling, you'll never get to enjoy how lovely the sky is." She paused, thinking about that analogy from her perspective, and then said, "Just like you don't know how to give that sort of love, I don't know what the sky looks like. But I trust it is as beautiful as people say, because it's a much nicer world to live in that way."