Maybe it was jealousy.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7m8xeCWiqW
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RFo7dRkvS
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyd7t1duuxf
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0GWZpSEiG
It wasn’t that.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVJZ7uABaH
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIL8qcIaIgE
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwWfTU1onY
Terrified, actually.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBLzMrVGTI
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhn4Evu1fcL
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9E1PPUHYS
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOoqrSDue9k
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpv4mczUAhk
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61ifj5CH6B
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9hkAGXy34
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡav6zgt31hI
Because love is blind,381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Ki9hcfvZQ
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dMpPOYVoo
Not love.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvv9It2joCT
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyl0Ex3bZX
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4bYnnXxdM
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOQ5wpV3rB
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPAKqVdval
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6ThoLVJpo
not gripped tight.
You see,381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaf9GtYnUxf
I wasn’t jealous.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdKapLEFpi
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSjAEcEins
The us we created in tiny moments —381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uS5jFuKTN
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZkSRWR81It
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.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LZXji8uS3
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbncNGmyihF
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKotbLo9XG
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjE11Q3m8x
Me. And you.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rC18e67OB
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKITehcXJa
Letting go, not because someone better came along…381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSrO0bOi5d
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.