Maybe it was jealousy.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0eYoBGt75
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr4S1zPvKsU
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKFPGQU9iT
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPOxUmYtcw
It wasn’t that.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwItxcbY7u
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkInALlIcM
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20y9PBy2jZ
Terrified, actually.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHhsuMjoMr
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0vK2a646ut
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rtCxJapr5
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIoaTvZmGT
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LrncYAXiQ
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRrf98jNKO
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiLvYQmPLIe
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDBJIWxZM6
Because love is blind,430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3FrMwmmD5
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqzN1hQyg4
Not love.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkJrbIGPvP
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iFh9alHuW
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCTdwQDYEv
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyQOR0Dgdm
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuARkEh3elc
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFYeZAGrWb
not gripped tight.
You see,430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2rKbEHftz
I wasn’t jealous.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwhMyEWkaT
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4MrPkXIj8
The us we created in tiny moments —430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmu0bhZhYc
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FsTYRjQqY
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.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNP1sfyihkn
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4xIDqRubP
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1i3GMJf07W
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsk8qfst8wn
Me. And you.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOyPW9kjDV
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡic6sGDFGGB
Letting go, not because someone better came along…430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNrhvcOoX3
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.