perspective | jjk

16.

i invited you to my seventeenth birthday party, along with my friends from school and family. i got gifts from everybody but my favourite one was yours; a mixtape of all our favourite songs. cheesy, but you were always that way.

we all gathered around a large cake, everybody sang happy birthday to my blushing face and watched as i sat silently on a wooden chair, staring into the candles until a wish came to mind. my eyes rested on your loving ones, and i felt another lovesick smile take place on my face, blowing out the candles and letting the smoke rise to my nose. when everybody left you asked me what i had wished about and not one to believe in wishes anyway, i told you.

i told you i wished that we could be together to love in peace. and perhaps i was the one who jinxed us.