Maybe it was jealousy.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHxbrjCPec
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnJN0SKxMv
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgNOrSYYHA
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXfJKQMdtT
It wasn’t that.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4FK64JOk6
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5v0YhtcXR0
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzz7JYypKKU
Terrified, actually.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFV6OdRDHS
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMBwdL5tQya
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0sKYlv2Pp
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMS4qg5tTn
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFc69rtjJzv
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadJ39IA88j
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuUngchbDI
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCJOGGDxzG
Because love is blind,350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUs1EvHkIv
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcovSCwzRO
Not love.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkA0EkDQtl
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyCKTEAqGsi
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwskx4eKD9
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RoYRRnogi
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5D91xo4Uu
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7t15mYHT6Q
not gripped tight.
You see,350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVwM9kmCi0
I wasn’t jealous.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIlkXkqypA
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5vjD121YA
The us we created in tiny moments —350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOw5ULbn8bY
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU1TKqoHk55
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.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCn7QYhpQv
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyZdtHmyxL
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKJaIXSg2P
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDcEROsEzM
Me. And you.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTc0l6Gi1yN
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkDLGZ64o8
Letting go, not because someone better came along…350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpQdqZdQUj
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.