Love Sick // Ashton Irwin

Love can suck sometimes. It brings you close to people who always end up leaving or fading out of your life one way or another. Whether it happens in a flash or slowly over time, the pain is still the same. You still feel like there is a vacant place in your heart where that person once was, and you still feel just as alone.

But for whatever reason, we as humans need to love. If we didn't, we'd always feel that vacancy, that loneliness. Love is something we crave, something we have to have to survive in this world. We need people to lean on, people to give us joy, people who can make the darkest of days shine even the littlest of light.

He was like that for me. He could make me laugh uncontrollably until my stomach hurt, and held on tight to me while I sobbed when life became too much. He showed me that I had someone who needed me, and who loved me.

And holy shit, was I so in love with him.

But he was my best friend. How could I tell him that?

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