Maybe it was jealousy.138Please respect copyright.PENANAGRzhPjkyZF
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —138Please respect copyright.PENANALYzJqbccmb
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:138Please respect copyright.PENANAUdIAv1dEHH
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.138Please respect copyright.PENANAEXUBDhNKvR
It wasn’t that.138Please respect copyright.PENANAM9MzvpVlm1
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.138Please respect copyright.PENANA2x7Jp0mF1W
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.138Please respect copyright.PENANA9g02prc5lJ
Terrified, actually.138Please respect copyright.PENANAEFXKNd1ja5
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —138Please respect copyright.PENANAUwpZCFeW3K
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —138Please respect copyright.PENANAiOjp9d0cGc
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.138Please respect copyright.PENANAHbK0dJy1JQ
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.138Please respect copyright.PENANA4oUBQj2wIR
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —138Please respect copyright.PENANAknwXwTdw5c
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.138Please respect copyright.PENANABh8omXQZmu
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.138Please respect copyright.PENANAi3ijHZmFAP
Because love is blind,138Please respect copyright.PENANAV7jyspmh0X
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.138Please respect copyright.PENANAyXPAjKXerm
Not love.138Please respect copyright.PENANADUrr3tIeSW
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.138Please respect copyright.PENANAhU5f7eh12V
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.138Please respect copyright.PENANAY1AzZkpO23
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?138Please respect copyright.PENANAgE609ckTVK
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —138Please respect copyright.PENANAAvl05w0xnG
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,138Please respect copyright.PENANAJgXiSpcObe
not gripped tight.
You see,138Please respect copyright.PENANA5lvIoXz7KW
I wasn’t jealous.138Please respect copyright.PENANAkRQ7H0xZ7T
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.138Please respect copyright.PENANAbr2rVJrV7p
The us we created in tiny moments —138Please respect copyright.PENANAGZaQ68v3Te
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,138Please respect copyright.PENANAcG1VFauhPD
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.138Please respect copyright.PENANARpWKAYAamf
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —138Please respect copyright.PENANAbP7HCt7AC9
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.138Please respect copyright.PENANAzJmZdUYn3i
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.138Please respect copyright.PENANAxp5xtUMqEn
Me. And you.138Please respect copyright.PENANAXBU4qg1Rsc
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.138Please respect copyright.PENANAKGcOcG6Z8s
Letting go, not because someone better came along…138Please respect copyright.PENANA33AtNLZIqA
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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