Maybe it was jealousy.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTpuZ6CJ4rW
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxp5YwjfwYh
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqVywI0wNR
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGOpjBo1Un
It wasn’t that.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4Q62O3oSy
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPx7mpvZgB
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZeH7O4SaV
Terrified, actually.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UkP1WAfzX
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfG2kKVZtO4
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPn5ERXh91
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzr02Ak7Na
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABEWicfjpk
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzEB439e4j
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtgpQ6Xy2w
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZe6WYBtroC
Because love is blind,128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTjApqcwZA
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMxyqOs1gL
Not love.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMADbORa4o8
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqISd5wXzad
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpE89USVRYR
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQegu7Fq2vf
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvP3YXx9F62
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UV8ydsFbc
not gripped tight.
You see,128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvItaCHMF2
I wasn’t jealous.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLREyJ8VbQ4
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33CZ7dtjoe
The us we created in tiny moments —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyaAuqRAWov
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HSXUh3vYS
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.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ86082Ml6KO
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVcnGpoCft
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4wNSuUxP90
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7ejETXwCM
Me. And you.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvA2TyHwxBT
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXhcQ0j72E
Letting go, not because someone better came along…128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZG7em6qhX
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.