
And in the evening,13Please respect copyright.PENANAGGgQpqmbdh
as the sun dipped behind the same skies that once held our shared laughter,13Please respect copyright.PENANArJzQXdFsZG
her message came.
"I don’t know how to feel,13Please respect copyright.PENANA1P3YdVqPS3
’Cause I only ever saw you as a very good friend.13Please respect copyright.PENANAEDzi5ykxI4
I felt betrayed.Lastly, just know that there’s always a part in me that will remember you as a very good friend.13Please respect copyright.PENANA3RoxKGbuMj
I really hope you find peace.”
I knew this would be the answer.13Please respect copyright.PENANA2aLBi0c8S6
Somewhere deep down, I always did.
But hearing it—13Please respect copyright.PENANASIizrdEJHq
from her lips, in her voice,13Please respect copyright.PENANA27I0Pm9uKt
in words carved softly but with finality—13Please respect copyright.PENANAEvrYZ85Co7
it still broke me.
I cried that night.
Not the first time.13Please respect copyright.PENANAbHHjT3gsEF
Not the loudest.13Please respect copyright.PENANAhczVHnC3H6
But maybe the most honest.
Because I said what I wanted to say...13Please respect copyright.PENANAef9XqkOIcc
and heard what I never wanted to.
But maybe that’s what closure looks like—13Please respect copyright.PENANAU7IK4JAA1b
Not peace. Just an ending.
It’s for the best, right?
Now, she won’t be uncomfortable around me.13Please respect copyright.PENANA8m6P73aMOJ
Because I won’t be around.
The friend I met,13Please respect copyright.PENANAwdtZxfQTRP
the friendship I nurtured,13Please respect copyright.PENANAh3phML14fE
the girl I trusted like no one else...
It ended.
So beautifully,13Please respect copyright.PENANA9n1gubaPTW
so gently,13Please respect copyright.PENANADqbrMoTGXm
that she could forget it without pain.
And I’ll make it easy.13Please respect copyright.PENANAEhrivEPGN5
I’ll vanish with grace.13Please respect copyright.PENANAzgcvepe1VM
Because I trust her—13Please respect copyright.PENANAMZYXJ6U1eP
even now—13Please respect copyright.PENANADQcV9ysxdk
to let go.
And at last, I understand something cruel:
Promises never meant as much as love.13Please respect copyright.PENANAsgjojuTNpF
And when love left,13Please respect copyright.PENANAk2B9gtD8o0
promises shattered like glass too fragile to hold weight.
All those “forevers” we whispered?13Please respect copyright.PENANAQnaLNTRsiE
They were only meant to last as long as we stayed close.
And the worst of it all?
Hope.
Hope is the cruelest thing.13Please respect copyright.PENANAfzJZRYv3k0
It keeps you warm just enough to survive the cold,13Please respect copyright.PENANAoaIqhAKMRz
but not enough to escape it.13Please respect copyright.PENANArCHsivDsjY
It lingers.13Please respect copyright.PENANAgCJVFs7IVG
It tricks.13Please respect copyright.PENANAdDKeXf5M7z
It hurts.
But it's also all we’re left with in the end.
So I hold onto it one last time.
Not to get her back.
But to believe I’ll survive losing her.13Please respect copyright.PENANATLzHSa8vUj
Such a fool I am.13Please respect copyright.PENANALrIQYNSKne