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๐โ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ธ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐, ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ
And yet, I canโt stop. God help me, I canโt stop.
Iโm scared whenever I think of you.
Not the clean fear of a horror movie jump-scare. No this is a slow-drip poison, the kind that seeps into your veins while you sleep, waking you up gasping, sheets tangled, her name burning on your tongue. Itโs the fear that grips my chest like a vice every time your face flashes in my mind those eyes that promise everything, that voice that whispers mine only for the next heartbeat to shatter it all.
And the brutal truth? I think of you constantly. In the hollow quiet of my apartment, in the roar of traffic, in the middle of a meeting when I should be anywhere but here. Youโre a ghost I canโt exorcise. A wound I keep picking at.
Why? Let me drag you through the wreckage. Line by line. Because this isnโt poetry itโs a crime scene.
## The Logic: The Cold Math That Adds Up to Ruin
My logic screams it first the rational voice Iโve trusted through every bad bet Iโve ever made. It tallies the evidence like a detective piecing together a murder:
She makes you feel safe. Untouchable. Like the worldโs chaos canโt touch you when her arms are around you.
One night, weโre tangled in my bed, her breath warm against my neck, her fingers tracing promises on my skin. "Youโre my safe place," she murmurs. I believe her. For the first time in years, I breathe.
Cut to tomorrow.
Her Instagram story lights up my phone at noon: her lips on some guyโs, laughing like she didnโt just carve her name into my soul hours before. No explanation. No apology. She moves on like flicking a light switch click and Iโm left in the dark, wondering if "safe" was ever real or just the prelude to the fall.
My logic tallies: Safe + Betrayal = Do not pass Go. But I ignore it. Every time.
## The Heart: The Lies She Whispers Straight to Its Core
Then my heart joins the chorus a bruised, stupid thing that bleeds faster than it heals. It remembers the words. God, the words.
"I love you."
She says it over the phone at 2 a.m., voice husky, intimate. I can hear the smile in it, feel the pull. Iโm ready to uproot my life for those three syllables.
What she doesnโt tell me what I find out later is the guy lying next to her.*
Naked. Asleep. His arm probably still draped over her waist. She has every reasonable explanation lined up like alibis in a courtroom: "He was drunk, crashed here, nothing happened. You know I love you." Itโs flawless. Airtight. She delivers it with that same soft laugh, the one that used to melt me.
My heart cracks open right there on the call, but it doesnโt end the line. It listens. It forgives. Because for one poisoned second, I want to believe her. Even as the pieces of me shatter on the floor.
## The Spirit: The Wild Hunger That Devours Us Both
Deeper still, my spirit knows the ancient, feral part that craves the fire even as it burns. She ignites it.
We play like kids: chasing each other through midnight streets, laughing until our sides ache, exploring hidden corners of the city like itโs ours alone. Her hand in mine feels like destiny. Her wildness mirrors mine untamed, electric, alive.
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But she wants to explore further. Always further.
The edges that slice me open. "Just friends," she calls the other guys she dances with, the ones whose hands linger too long. "Itโs not serious," she says about the trips she takes without me, the nights she "needs space" that end with someone elseโs scent on her skin. She explores everything my heart included like itโs a playground with no rules.
My spirit trembles, not in weakness, but in recognition: This is addiction. This is the high that kills. It knows loving her means signing up for the hurt. And still, it pulls me back. Every. Single. Time.
## The Past: Ghosts That Scream "I Told You So"
And the past? Itโs the loudest of all a graveyard of "her"s who came before, each one teaching the same lesson in blood: Donโt.
The one who ghosted after six months of "forever." The one who cheated and called it "a mistake." The one who said "I love you" while scrolling Tinder. Theyโve wired me for survival flinch first, love never.
With you, itโs all of them at once, amplified. Your laugh echoes their lies. Your touch revives their goodbyes. My past doesnโt whisper warnings; it roars.
## Theyโve Never Failed Me Thatโs Why the Fear Is a Living Hell
These guardians logic, heart, spirit, past theyโve never failed me. Not once. Theyโve yanked me from burning buildings disguised as relationships. Theyโve stitched me back together when I was too stupid to run. They tremble for me. They flinch before the knife twists.
Thatโs why Iโm scared shitless.
Not despite them because of them. Theyโre unanimous: Sheโs poison. And for the first time, I canโt outrun their truth. Because choosing you means betraying me.
And still...
I choose you.
In the wreckage of another "I love you" that tastes like ash.
In the gut-punch of seeing her story with him.
In the ache of knowing tomorrow sheโll laugh with me again like nothing happened like Iโm the fool who stays.
The Suspense That Keeps Me (and You) Coming Back
I'm scared whenever I think of you.
Will today be the day she chooses us really chooses? Or the day she kisses someone else and calls it "harmless"? Will her "I love you" come with an empty bed... or a strangerโs heartbeat beside her?
I donโt know.
โYouโ donโt know.
Thatโs the hook the knife-edge suspense of it all. One line: joy, her arms pulling me under like a warm tide. Next line: heartbreak, her moving on while Iโm still drowning.
I think of you all the time. Waiting for the next drop. The next high. The next shatter.
Because even in the terroreven as my guardians scream โrunโ youโre the only story I canโt quit.
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