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My story is about a boy and a girl. 🙂 <3 (I’m hoping for dual first person pov, but we’ll see)

The boy: He’s working to overcome his grief from his grandmother’s recent death from cancer. His grandmother was an astronomer, and he loved stargazing with her and researching etc. Now he avoids astronomy altogether. His grandfather makes him go back to astronomy, so over the story, he is dealing with memories and gradually healing.

The girl: She has hearing loss and she’s come to be okay with that. However, she tries to hide it from people outside of her family because she doesn’t want to be pitied. She was pursuing a career in singing before her accident that caused the hearing loss. Now, she can’t hear well enough to pursue it and she’s learning to find something new to pursue.

Vibes: Stargazing, painting stars on the feeling, off-key humming when no one else is listening, sleepy sunlight, the sky, black hole theory, old journals, infectious loud laughter, nosy old ladies, cobwebbed corners of the mind, big curly hair to hide hearing aids, tea parties with a five-year-old, finding art in the night sky, piecing together shattered song.

I thought her death made me a void, an empty heart that needed to be filled.

But now I see that after she died, I was full of love. Full of unused love that was starving to be used. So desperate to be given away that it left me through the only way I would let it: in tiny saltwater tears tracing down my cheeks. 

And that is how I heal. 

I love.