The Wrong Kind of Feeling

We often fall for people we were never meant to have.

People who feel close... yet completely out of reach.
People we know will never look at us the same way.

And still-
the heart doesn't listen.

Even the loudest, most fearless people
find themselves hesitating, overthinking,
losing words they never run out of.

That's how it was for me.

He was never a stranger.

He was someone I had known my whole life-
someone older, someone familiar,
someone I never thought twice about.

Until one trip changed everything... quietly.

Not in a moment.
Not in a confession.

But in the silence he left behind-
and the feelings I was never supposed to have.

Because he never saw me that way.

And no matter how much I tried-
my heart never listened.

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⚠️ Warnings

Age gap

Unrequited love

slow burn

heavy angst