Absence

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At some point she realised it hurt too much to wait for him to love her back and so she stopped waiting. She stopped messaging first, stopped leaving the light on for him in the apartment, stopped leaving her bedroom door open for him to slip in after work or practice. She stopped making room for him in her life and only then did he genuinely recognise her absence.

Only after weeks of coming home to dark rooms, locked dorms, and take out on the table did he realise how empty his life would be without her in it. The coldness confused him. He didn't understand what he had done wrong, but she knew, and that he was sure of.

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