The Only Thing That’s Killing Me, Makes Me Feel So Alive.
You ask me if I was starting to like you again. Starting to? Are you kidding me? I am in love with you. And I have been for quite some time. I want to blame you for this, for bringing it up. For some reason I instantly burst into tears when you asked me this. I’m not totally sure why. Maybe because I’m busted and I know it. Maybe because I’ve been holding it in for so long that you saying that was like opening a bottle of shaken coke. The explosion was unstoppable, and inevitable.
I think you knew the whole time though. Almost like you were gloating about it. Holding it over my head. Using it to your advantage so I would agree to whatever you wanted. That sounds selfish of me to assume that of you, I know. But I am desperate to make sense of this. Why don’t you love me back? I have this immense, faithful love for you, so much so that it makes my heart hurt. I think of you often, you’re all I want to talk about and the only one I want to talk to.
I don’t want to love anyone else. I’m afraid to. I’m afraid that if I give up on you, and let myself be with someone else, that you will finally wake up and want me too. I am totally me when I am around you, I love that so much. Everything about you is what I look for in a person. And it hurts to know I can’t have you, that I know you’re still searching for the girl of your dreams. I’m sitting here silently screaming that I love you, and you look right through me.
I wonder what you truly think of me sometimes. What it is that makes me so unlovable. I know you’re too nice though, you would never admit it to my face. Apart of me appreciates that, but the other part wishes you’d just crush me with the bitter truth. Pain feels good, it’s the only emotion that makes me feel anything anymore.
I’m not sure where to go from here to be honest. I know you know the truth now, it was written all over my face, and the tears left a reminder on your shirt when you left my house. I sort of hope this doesn’t change how you act towards me. I really liked where we were. I’m afraid to lose you as my friend. I truly value having you as my friend more than having you as only mine. I mean, really what would it change, besides my peace of mind knowing that you were only looking at me, and no one else. That is where my jealousy comes from. And I do my best to hold it within myself because I know you have every right to be doing what you’re doing. I respect that, I really do.
So where do we go from here. I wish I knew, but when are things ever easy in this life. Maybe within the next few days I’ll get the guts up to talk to you because I know you’re giving me space, right? that’s the reason you’re not saying anything? I hope.