They came in loud.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4rA76eFwd
Not cruel, just brimming.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmoCVkmLyl
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.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqW4nxfUqf
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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.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NhKe0TSYX
They blinked.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp82UKqvzwl
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“I am enough.”
They didn’t respond.
But they stayed a little longer.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02tthYcZcB
They looked at the fire differently.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjterr7LDR9
Quieter. As though realizing it had never needed to burn higher.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTo1sHYXxzy
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“Maybe that’s harder.”
