Maybe it was jealousy.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbg9sfgsAex
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtTMmz4Vdz
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudjMGMGilP
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYywCFwPfs
It wasn’t that.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwf6BeJ4xe
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzd6aT7aaTk
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LFkDaFAdd
Terrified, actually.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2H1RxPMsG
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5u9X2hY4pP
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3qpC2edLY
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXZQFTbkDc
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslcJ6G29HZ
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09bQ2OuBs5
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylG4d20eJp
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRiQAROHc8S
Because love is blind,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5W6HgOgxkC
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQO6G7u1KfJ
Not love.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMDyaycz2t
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgbIaFjLNn
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKnvE6VlxZC
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8ixl9ZpGs
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxpVfcrNJ2
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTNdEBcA2M
not gripped tight.
You see,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26yXtG3OtW
I wasn’t jealous.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqSphTQ3LH
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLgM9UI6hC
The us we created in tiny moments —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZJPAro7u4
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKXg4Qnu1e
holding on to silences like they were the most honest things we ever said.
I was scared of losing that version of you I named Forevermore.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEquFh4KA5
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvdM7weKfC
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQhcOvdfzK
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLjWuQt2S5
Me. And you.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BfCiUvTTJ
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpzyfdlTlv
Letting go, not because someone better came along…76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSC5odNQHpn
but because we forgot how to see each other like we used to.
And that’s what broke my heart the most.
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and then Add to home screen.