Make Me Say Yes

I just knew that finally heading off to live on my own for college last year would be everything I wanted it to be. (Well, almost everything, if you didn't count the actual studying parts.) But freedom! Friends! Sex (finally)! But it turned out that I wasn't exactly on my own since I ended up moving in with my big brother and his roommates, and then my brother decided we should all start a celibacy club, and since I hate letting people down almost more than I hate doing homework, of course I said yes (even though I was pretty bummed at the idea of not getting any sex). That was last year, and spoiler: I'm the only one in the Omega Celibacy Club who's still celibate. But that's okay, because the other thing that happened last year? I'm pretty sure I found my fated mate. Cade Washington is a patient at the veterans hospital I volunteer at, and he's in a coma, but all the stuff I feel when I'm around him, that has to be real, right? And someday, even if I'm the only one who seems sure of it, he wake up... I have no idea how long I've been in limbo, but what I do know is that this foggy, muffled half-existence is my own personal hell. Nothing exists here except memories I'd rather escape... and an omega. omega. Except that for all the memories that endlessly plague me, I don't have any of him, and that means he doesn't really exist, either... except for in here. So even though I'm stuck here, I don't want to leave, either. Because here. Tristan's here. And I'd rather spend every moment of whatever my life has become in this hell with him than return to a world where he doesn't exist. Until I realize that Tristan needs me, and that maybe this wasn't hell after all, but simply the price I had to pay to find the one thing I really needed all along...