@manatshiuu: miu never asked Lena to love her back. Not once. The night she confessed, she already knew what the answer would be. Maybe not with certainty. But enough to prepare herself for it. So when Lena gently said no, Miu smiled through the ache in her chest and nodded. Because she could live with rejection. What she couldn’t live with was losing Lena. And when Lena reached for her hand and said, “Nothing’s gonna change between us.” Miu believed her. God, she believed her. Maybe more than she should have. For a while, things stayed the same. They still talked every day. Still shared random thoughts at midnight. Still laughed at jokes nobody else understood. It felt normal. It felt safe. It felt like maybe Miu could survive loving someone who would never love her back. Because she wasn’t asking for more. She wasn’t waiting for Lena to change her mind. She wasn’t hoping for a miracle. All she wanted was to keep what they already had. But little by little, things began to slip. The messages became shorter. The conversations became rarer. The stories Lena used to tell her first were now things Miu learned from someone else. And every time Miu noticed, she pretended she didn’t. Because pointing it out felt dangerous. As if saying it aloud would make it real. So she settled. She settled for late replies. She settled for cancelled plans. She settled for feeling less important than she used to be. Because even a small piece of Lena was still Lena. And Miu loved her enough to accept that. What she didn’t know was that Lena was hurting too. Every notification from Miu filled her with guilt. Not because Miu had done anything wrong. But because she knew. She knew there was love waiting on the other side of every message. Love she couldn’t return. And every time Miu acted normal, every time she smiled and pretended everything was okay, Lena felt worse. Because Miu deserved someone who could love her back. Someone who wouldn’t make her settle. Someone who wouldn’t leave her wondering if she was too much. Lena told herself distance was the kindest thing she could do. If she stepped away, maybe Miu would finally move on. Maybe she’d stop holding onto something impossible. Maybe she’d find someone better. So Lena slowly pulled away. Not enough to look cruel. Just enough to create space. The kind of distance that grows so gradually you don’t realize how far apart you’ve become until one day you look up and barely recognize where the other person is standing. Miu noticed. Of course she noticed. She noticed everything. She noticed when Lena stopped telling her about her day. She noticed when she wasn’t the first person Lena ran to anymore. She noticed when conversations that used to last hours became a few polite exchanges before silence. But she never complained. Because she was terrified that if she asked for more, she’d lose what little she had left. Until one night, after staring at an empty chat window for nearly an hour, she finally asked: “Did I ruin us when I told you how I felt?” The response came a long time later. #lenamiu #miunatsha #oneshot #lenalalina #miulena

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