Maybe it was jealousy.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGlmfbaq4l
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdBzFAcWcjv
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE2aTaWJU4l
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5y8kTCXJeQ
It wasn’t that.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4EfYcVaqn
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUriHhyWHJ
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7qpK5JmLX
Terrified, actually.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVZquEcSIC
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhx6GSjiQN
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHr8ngt3yu7
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfrqmdfdSmq
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEHR5KT5PG
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCkfLFw6jY
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGaTvWEI9P
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBWSBVy0L3
Because love is blind,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3lxybCtcU
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxuvPitDQr
Not love.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHD4An5YGMS
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnGmkauW8W
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgx6PcolSf
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRI5TKZnEv
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNFuUDwpWJ
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBLOMgJaPj
not gripped tight.
You see,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYInpQVlgho
I wasn’t jealous.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgYtB1morkq
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSEtxcNmDR
The us we created in tiny moments —74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWU5rcpRpBb
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HTavZbnes
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.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLP18Clq2i
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BUQFSQpSg
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLU8PsxFRQ
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZxYVWk6Kc
Me. And you.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWiqDnBm1g0
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxP3LWMHQ6y
Letting go, not because someone better came along…74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9yibsWuHO
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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and then Add to home screen.