Maybe it was jealousy.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0BhcRAg3r
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmHVhxzbHN
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcB6FxcRHbw
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqAwyZYevi
It wasn’t that.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDB3VekuJkD
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KB589yrVc
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1nWmNVLwo
Terrified, actually.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4VArFWtuB
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZAn4sp4JJ
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRV9xtkBUHz
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSBkbir8dY
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PllTiYpVl
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpTJjaQZBq
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANBTgt1gtP
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hgDcBRU5O
Because love is blind,349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmN1oe7nGq
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWGFPGULyI
Not love.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTzSwyaeXb
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdd1I39Qop
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFoTSxEU0g
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcaEAT9JcGC
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2t2qr0ZSSz
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjJ1iKPXRA
not gripped tight.
You see,349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2r9wXVRDih
I wasn’t jealous.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5sAfFUfor
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjlu2EOCZa
The us we created in tiny moments —349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZY74PFcAvP
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccV5vUXaaT
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.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlZZqRgB8A
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jG1p3OBvA
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vmdlrL81E
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmeOMyoBycB
Me. And you.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPXbQ2P0ar
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vwhECbHeU
Letting go, not because someone better came along…349Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqqQAxtQ3y
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.