unsent letter from Mystery to Zoey
Zoey,
I'm writing this because I don't know how else to breathe.
You're asleep in the other room. I can feel your heartbeat through the wall. Every time you exhale, it's like a weight lifts from my chest... and then returns with the next breath. You don't even know it, but you've been healing me just by existing nearby.
I was never supposed to care this much.
I was never supposed to care at all.
You were meant to be another mission. Another Hunter. Another opponent in a stage fight.
But then you laughed backstage with glitter on your cheeks, and the moonlight fell across your eyes like it was made for you. And suddenly...
I was undone.
You're fire and calm.
Softness and steel.
You walk through a burning world and still stop to notice the stars.
How could anyone not fall in love with that?
I've memorized the rhythm of your voice. The curve of your smile when you say you're "fine" but aren't.
You pretend to be strong for everyone.
But I've seen the cracks when you think no one's looking.
I'd hold every piece of you if you'd let me.
Sometimes I want to reach out and tell you everything—
That the Moon Sigil wasn't fate.
It was a gift.
It led me to you.
But I'm afraid.
Afraid that if I say it aloud... you'll run.
And I would rather suffer in silence than lose the only thing that makes me feel human again.
So I write.
Because if I said this to your face, I'd fall apart.
Because if you ever read this—
It would mean I'm either brave enough to love you out loud,
or gone.
If this letter finds you someday, somehow...
Then know this:
You were the one.
Not because a mark said so.
But because when everything was falling apart,
you were the only thing that made me want to stay.
Always yours,
—even if I never say it aloud—
Mystery
Found tucked inside a black leather lyric notebook, behind a ripped-out page with Zoey's name written again and again in the margins. 😭🖤🌙