Maybe it was jealousy.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡytwpvnmpGc
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xse8ecSvK
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufUEhhzppx
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZEtxI2ctH
It wasn’t that.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77jpHw6jUB
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvkpD0buHB
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpW04B4LBL
Terrified, actually.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QE5iwau6C
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrleCjyAKKw
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH6JIhrQPIu
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNcVa46cVob
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡet2g2RZtxl
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1V5Hpq8MJ
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTAFIH3ryr
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0z42uwrSfo
Because love is blind,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81xYT6Fp5H
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkebJ011jVu
Not love.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrftjBRT6S
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShGHiGtpVa
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdI360draeW
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVyrII6N75
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmG5gRguF6G
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifkpKPRq2n
not gripped tight.
You see,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrM7FffjCiF
I wasn’t jealous.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfvZXAsfjs
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikOoDo545i
The us we created in tiny moments —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy67r7lIhYc
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBEt0MXt8kV
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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpx0iIasoP9
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhgHxNqeQ8
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡND9hKdDwjX
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhfivWEyZw
Me. And you.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyPnq3CzDI
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Zr7TAOPId
Letting go, not because someone better came along…133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Z4DhTXUAR
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.