They came in loud.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqCmvnVALd
Not cruel, just brimming.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhs77YS1ZaM
The kind of person whose presence fills a room before they know if they’re welcome.
They looked at the walls, the bottles, the stillness of it all.
And then at me.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xQLM7fSc1
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“You could be so much more.”
I said nothing at first.
I poured them a drink that cools the fever of ambition.
They drank.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6jICEdSfM
They blinked.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYGsMqwlLkX
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“I am enough.”
They didn’t respond.
But they stayed a little longer.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt488SP5UNI
They looked at the fire differently.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3P9UQA0On
Quieter. As though realizing it had never needed to burn higher.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkl3bGHpR20
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“Maybe that’s harder.”
