Maybe it was jealousy.55Please respect copyright.PENANA1iK2gZooMp
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —55Please respect copyright.PENANAzBYKdeSJym
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:55Please respect copyright.PENANAqQSnlgSUlC
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.55Please respect copyright.PENANAsobXmxF4pb
It wasn’t that.55Please respect copyright.PENANA0MAfNaFtzT
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.55Please respect copyright.PENANAAZDpw8HFdZ
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.55Please respect copyright.PENANAsTcQdtazwX
Terrified, actually.55Please respect copyright.PENANAPfaXKGMlrv
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —55Please respect copyright.PENANAEIGE2TaFxE
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —55Please respect copyright.PENANAOtXACpzbpM
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.55Please respect copyright.PENANAcRFbGB7Fgl
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.55Please respect copyright.PENANArFPq7C28ur
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —55Please respect copyright.PENANA0mksgEY1sp
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.55Please respect copyright.PENANAGCLmNbgCAH
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.55Please respect copyright.PENANACnnp0DZWq5
Because love is blind,55Please respect copyright.PENANAB1aWDktxSD
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.55Please respect copyright.PENANAKjbqZjirYA
Not love.55Please respect copyright.PENANAxNmdqWek4m
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.55Please respect copyright.PENANAdY4l1sVJkf
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.55Please respect copyright.PENANAxfqz73kmE0
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?55Please respect copyright.PENANATSs6IBl1KS
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —55Please respect copyright.PENANA6fGL1OfmTp
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,55Please respect copyright.PENANAPS8ILn54vv
not gripped tight.
You see,55Please respect copyright.PENANAaEpxVXFQCB
I wasn’t jealous.55Please respect copyright.PENANAhL9L4EGbDp
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.55Please respect copyright.PENANA7G2kAzvnid
The us we created in tiny moments —55Please respect copyright.PENANAeT1Y2iBXGp
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,55Please respect copyright.PENANA17dIX0cc0E
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.55Please respect copyright.PENANA8DzA74yJ2g
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —55Please respect copyright.PENANAH5LD3WYQN7
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.55Please respect copyright.PENANAgbFF6kbtGT
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.55Please respect copyright.PENANAuGRu3oawm7
Me. And you.55Please respect copyright.PENANA7WnQl1ckvY
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.55Please respect copyright.PENANABBDAV2Apft
Letting go, not because someone better came along…55Please respect copyright.PENANAguFrepJMG4
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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