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“I said I love you. It physically hurts to breathe sometimes because when you’re around my lungs take in fluttery feelings instead of oxygen and, oh my god, I am so fucking in love with you. I close my eyes, I see you. It makes the darkness bearable. In silence, I hear your laugh. The fucking annoying, high-pitched laugh that’s music to my ears. I’m trying not to, I really am. But, god, you make it so easy to fall in love with you and I’m not that strong not to.”
Silence, with heavy breathing echoing in the locker room.
And then, “No, no, no. You can’t love me, not like that.”—
A childhood friends to lovers trope, the ‘it’s you, it’s always been you’ trope, the requited-love-but-they’re-idiots trope, because [gunshot].
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- Part 1 of counting
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“We’re not the same people as the first day we fell in love with each other anymore.”
It sounded like it should’ve hurt, but there was something heavier behind the words as they hung in the air.
A but: “My heart is yours, always. Unchanged.”
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Growth. Kindness. The ugly in between.
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- Part 2 of counting