crestfallen on the landing
Maybe I’m reading way too much into this, but I can’t stop thinking about how blue violets symbolize faithfulness and unwavering love. How gifting them means "I will always be true".
Rumi knows they’re from Zoey.
But she’s felt the shift between them ever since Mira became a part of their lives. She’s felt the distance growing, and she doesn’t know how to stop it. And Rumi has always struggled with believing she is enough. With believing that people can really, truly want her—not for what she can do for them, not for what they need her to be, but simply for who she is.
So maybe she’s started doing what Rumi does. Pulling away before someone else can leave first.
Not because she wants to. God, she doesn’t want to. But Zoey seems happy. And maybe Rumi has started telling herself that Zoey would be happier without her. That maybe loving Zoey means letting her go toward something easier. Something lighter. Someone who doesn’t come with all the broken pieces Rumi still doesn’t know how to put back together.
Maybe she has been slowly convincing herself that the distance between them is proof of what she has always been afraid of—that eventually, even Zoey would realize Rumi isn’t enough.
But then Zoey sends her flowers.
Blue violets.
And flowers have always been their love language.
So maybe Rumi looks at them and realizes Zoey didn’t just send flowers. She chose these. Faithfulness. Unwavering love.
And suddenly, everything Rumi has been telling herself doesn’t feel quite so certain anymore.
Because maybe Zoey isn’t letting her go.
Maybe Zoey is telling her, in the language that has always belonged to the two of them, I’m still here. I still choose you. I love you, and I mean it.
And for someone who has spent so much of her life wondering if anyone could ever truly want her for exactly who she is… maybe that changes everything.
