Maybe it was jealousy.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIyuk4mmzo
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEU23MZ5ko
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqv7Ml7Ag3
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CenZhF8IQ
It wasn’t that.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6IEJ4jNG0t
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2zYTCTv2A
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kHOzy6Lzn
Terrified, actually.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfg6ttmB6F
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRyaJnBWGq
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCIKKzXdIP
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5o8C9yNXXE
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDQ6Kl3IRT
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1opw9nVfCo
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpi2AMl1FBh
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMiWCrqYRSr
Because love is blind,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIf0CLigRA
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5VJ8YgHMY
Not love.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi68XckbiTm
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGbcWgfvGD
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PNozM7maw
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONva5aX12e
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmz74sYYURJ
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn45gD42SVQ
not gripped tight.
You see,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC081BITdoX
I wasn’t jealous.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡayoE3WJkKV
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrBFdBNdEz
The us we created in tiny moments —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbh320iRTu
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJyMi0lTac
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.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0p4NgbLG9u
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQa0VGT5Vl
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIl2ziVr089
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgTuVAXc5j
Me. And you.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCESVo4fQlk
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX74fBM9hDD
Letting go, not because someone better came along…66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGh33evsjH2
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.