The Almost Between Us

There was never really an us.

Just a friendship that slowly became something more in Amaya's heart.

A conversation she remembered a little too long.
A laugh she looked forward to.
A familiar face she started searching for in every crowd.

She never meant to fall for Auden.

And she certainly never meant to build a thousand little possibilities around someone who had never promised her anything.

But feelings don't always need permission.

Sometimes, they simply happen.

And when Amaya realizes that Auden's heart is already looking somewhere else, she is left with a question she never expected to ask:

How do you let go of someone you never really had?

Maybe some people aren't meant to become our forever.

Maybe they're meant to become a chapter.

A memory.

A lesson.

Or simply the person who teaches us that not every love has to be returned to have been real.

But when something never truly began, can it still be worth remembering when it's finally time to let go?