I wanted to look away, to retreat into the quiet corner of my mind where hope still lingered. But my gaze kept returning to them, observing without permission, my chest tightening with every shared joke, every smile that wasn't mine. The betrayal wasn't deliberate, I reminded myself. Cameron had never promised more than friendship. But my heart didn't listen to logic. It had already loved him in a thousand ways he could never reciprocate.
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