prismaticbleed

"I think that's the real reason I never wanted to get married," I mused quietly, my fingers trailing absentmindedly along his aquatic form.
"What?" He replied just as softly.
I shrugged slightly. "Social institution," I stated, and I saw him smile as I continued. "Marriage is just a legal agreement, really. And there doesn't have to be any genuine mutual compassion for it to happen, either. Sure, you can get married and be happily in love for your entire life, but was marriage necessary for that? No! Marriage is just society trying to compartmentalize and label something completely ineffable. What really matters has nothing to do with politics, religion, race, orientation, or anything like that... it's love. Honest, actual love. And I don't need to get married to have that, ever. No one does." I looked up at him. "Even when I promised myself I would never get married, as a kid, I think I understood that. I was never looking for marriage..." I paused. "...I was looking for you."
"And you found me," Chaos answered, as if it were a universal truth. And maybe it was.

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