*Caterina*

Too soon, we were headed back home after a trip that I never would have even dreamed I would get to go on. Already my life with Elio was feeling like such a fairytale, it was hard for me to believe that any of this was real.

We were only a few minutes away from landing in the private jet, and I was curled up against Elio’s chest in a seat so plush that I could hardly believe it was on a plane. I stared out the window at the perfect blue day, ...