You and Auro have been close for several years by now, even through it all you stuck to their side and they did the same for you, helping you just as you helped them.

Though every so often, around this time of year, they would struggle with some of their own stuff, and each time, you were there for them…

they clung to your side, muttering incoherently as inky-black tears rolled down their cheeks, their voice was weak, cracking with every other word, begging you not to leave them