Starbuddy ★ :
I knew deep down she didn’t feel the same, yet I kept pushing, kept trying to make her see me as more than just a friend. I’d ask her out, and she’d always say yes. So I took her to my favorite café the same one I’d brought her to ever since we started hanging out back in 2024. Slowly, without even meaning to, I fell for her. I told myself we were only ever meant to be friends, but my heart didn’t listen. Then came the hardest part: December 25, 2024 I finally confessed everything. And just days later, January 1, 2025… she vanished. Ghosted me completely. Because that’s all she wanted: to be friends. I waited. For months, I waited, holding on to the hope that she’d come around. Then, in 2026, we met again completely by surprise. She hugged me like nothing had ever happened, like we were still the same people we’d always been. We took photos together, and when I got home, I broke down. I felt something shift inside me a ache so deep I couldn’t name it. I’d waited so long… until her friend told me to let go. She has someone courting her now,they said. And that’s when it hit me I missed her. Not just the girl I’d fallen for, but us. The easy, quiet way we used to be. I missed the version of us that didn’t have to be anything more than together. I kept my distance after that, never reaching out again. But when she hugged me that day… I felt it all come rushing back. I missed the person who was never truly mine to lose.
I wish I’d never said anything. Maybe then, we wouldn’t have drifted apart. I wanted to ask her to be mine but someone else got there first.
I found out later she didn’t ghost me because she only saw me as a friend. She didn’t pull away because of some other suitor.
She pulled away because, the very same day I confessed, she found out she was sick something serious. She pushed me away because she loved me too much to watch me stay and suffer while she faded.
And when she hugged me in 2026? She knew it would be one of the last times she’d ever see me.
I wasn’t the one waiting for her all this time.
She was the one saying goodbye.
2026-09-13 13:23:44