Maybe it was jealousy.130Please respect copyright.PENANAFon53pjtvq
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —130Please respect copyright.PENANA3NKITAPUyZ
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:130Please respect copyright.PENANAnpjryUN1d1
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.130Please respect copyright.PENANAbbGnjjvnn4
It wasn’t that.130Please respect copyright.PENANAkUcU5woHLN
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.130Please respect copyright.PENANAJHTH6s8QDI
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.130Please respect copyright.PENANAbe9io0oJus
Terrified, actually.130Please respect copyright.PENANAn1CKSNqfAy
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —130Please respect copyright.PENANALG74IqiRyf
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —130Please respect copyright.PENANAnpQziBQerD
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.130Please respect copyright.PENANAGcTqZ6m3Ho
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.130Please respect copyright.PENANAawbAuHXNzJ
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —130Please respect copyright.PENANAKcZIQs4uFG
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.130Please respect copyright.PENANAWK0DsiGMMj
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.130Please respect copyright.PENANAU2U7mvQdG1
Because love is blind,130Please respect copyright.PENANALiH5W0G4Te
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.130Please respect copyright.PENANA56eRiNMZux
Not love.130Please respect copyright.PENANARKX0lbESRK
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.130Please respect copyright.PENANAtDYyFW01sb
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.130Please respect copyright.PENANAAiG6nYBQp0
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?130Please respect copyright.PENANAgu2cTT8U9c
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —130Please respect copyright.PENANA4RfoZO66eg
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,130Please respect copyright.PENANAaShPXidI5r
not gripped tight.
You see,130Please respect copyright.PENANAN21hBKWT7z
I wasn’t jealous.130Please respect copyright.PENANAHTsCYwE1PT
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.130Please respect copyright.PENANAuSdmvA3MH4
The us we created in tiny moments —130Please respect copyright.PENANAaK8Cx8xqNk
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,130Please respect copyright.PENANA9REbY7FTc7
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.130Please respect copyright.PENANAZiz1Lj1jgN
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —130Please respect copyright.PENANAri3kNqyxXn
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.130Please respect copyright.PENANAYBovuErq0g
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.130Please respect copyright.PENANAeDM2vaMtw5
Me. And you.130Please respect copyright.PENANALk6gbnlX4m
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.130Please respect copyright.PENANA3o8AN5zkyy
Letting go, not because someone better came along…130Please respect copyright.PENANAeIoSd4oLAU
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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