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Ongoing, First published Mar 28, 2020
I fell in love with someone I really shouldn't have. It was a wild, fervent, passionate, movie-type of love, but it was also harmful and selfish. But these types of loves are the ones that we love to read about; it's the reason so many movies like this exist. They're messy and complicated and they toy with everything we ever thought we believed in, but at the end of the day we crave the feeling that that kind of love brings us. It's the kind of love that brings you to your knees, that makes you question your entire belief system, but most of all it makes you wonder what you'd do without it now that you have it. You'd go to any and all ends to make it last as long as possible. You even say the cursed word 'forever' just to give yourself some hope. I knew from the beginning I wasn't supposed to love him, but at eighteen, every fiber of my being told me to be with him, no matter the consequence. So we fought on, us against the world, partly because we were in our own little world, and no one could tell me how I could feel. It was liberating, it was scary, it was damning, but it was love. And nothing could be so equally painful and pleasing than love.
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AND THEN THERE WAS US

19 parts Complete

They say love is patient. Love is kind. But no one ever told us that love... forgets. That sometimes, love comes home late, avoids your gaze, and smells like unfamiliar perfume. Minsan... love becomes a stranger wearing the face of the person you swore your life to. We were once the couple people envied. The ones who laughed at inside jokes, dreamed of baby names, and slow danced in the kitchen at 2AM. But things changed. Slowly. Quietly. At first, it was the way he stopped asking if I was okay. Then, it was the way I stopped answering-because I knew he wouldn't listen anyway. I never begged. Not for his time. Not for his love. Not even when I felt it slipping through my fingers. And he never noticed. Not the tears. Not the silence. Not even the way I held my stomach one last time and whispered goodbye. Some things were lost in the spaces between what we said... and what we never dared to. And sometimes, the loudest kind of heartbreak is the one no one hears. He held me once like I was his whole world. Now, I wonder if he'll remember the weight of my hand... When the world forgets I was ever here. Hindi ko alam kung kailan nagsimulang lumamig ang mga yakap mo. Kung kailan naging mas madalas ang katahimikan kaysa sa halik sa noo. Pero alam ko kung kailan ako tuluyang nawala sa'yo-noong hindi mo na ako hinanap. This isn't a story of blame. Or betrayal. Or even goodbye. This is the story of us. The version no one got to see. The part after the vows. The part where love stayed... but we didn't. "And Then There Was Us." Sometimes, forever isn't a promise. It's a countdown.