Maybe it was jealousy.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aFTTfMkXD
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjN2FraxQ9
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv1ZKokKT4v
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzYE9wf0qg
It wasn’t that.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanoOnBssFD
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDtsTcQiy8
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSba4s5ZlvC
Terrified, actually.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVP7BJjR1r
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfF0mRNNDLQ
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBezIfdjfF
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi08MROaLYt
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFZ9HBLT17
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwMCYslJFu3
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRm4xMFSWS0
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYhGdKnSj3
Because love is blind,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTkrZ95qwgE
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSMIBpLVn2
Not love.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIfcans0uT
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FF9b5mAdr
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVu7WEvSe2d
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71cNw7viaQ
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeJUarAQJF
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JYGVvyPhU
not gripped tight.
You see,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXHyfMG6ei
I wasn’t jealous.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvkt7nGJWX
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJ0wOmmjbZ
The us we created in tiny moments —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5VKTf0Brl
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5aeg58DR0
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.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktDpQ5QNw5
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIjH3ffAQf
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Rlisu3qYS
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5l1rnbLAX
Me. And you.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0AUwsSDBT
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LsLkXH8l1
Letting go, not because someone better came along…27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MPkCG4arZ
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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