Maybe it was jealousy.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdW2MnRIop1
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyl2ZRcFpU
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8u0wHgYd9K
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7eF2XNgAIg
It wasn’t that.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxreFLFTeV
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxl3hwx13Lf
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPZxx8nGCL
Terrified, actually.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb39mvPQnMF
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFG5HJk1M1W
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCa0uQ03KfE
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxrkXwq86L
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCWbvsJevI
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSH7ZQP5VIk
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0aCXolfXM
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOO9EXN5HDy
Because love is blind,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasSrNkxRK9
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UttNSycwL
Not love.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49QILuPQFz
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Uh7Pb8Z2b
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfAlnHTC9Ro
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRuDKHYvYmJ
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhPbuv14Sm
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5slAsBC7H
not gripped tight.
You see,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnbwRnzYfY
I wasn’t jealous.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLnut0vl6t
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVmcAOx97P
The us we created in tiny moments —36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEaOZGHD7LI
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIbvG3pyFr
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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakzIqcde9l
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCxXNXda6C
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1pwSZJ0Qh
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTUmdb4mgb
Me. And you.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhaP2uDCmN
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPo24ztRBeI
Letting go, not because someone better came along…36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmrzQPR5IP
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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