The Person You Choose
Her response came at 2 AM, after he'd left the party, after he'd driven home, after he'd sat in his car in the driveway afraid to go inside, afraid to be alone with the need he'd confessed.
I know, she sent. I need you too. Sometimes. Not always. Not the way you need me, maybe. But— The dots, then: But I'm here. The door is open. The need is messy on both sides. That's not nothing. That's the whole thing.
He read it three times. Saved it. Added it to the archive, the documentation, the history of his falling apart that was also becoming.
I'm trying, he typed back. To be the guy who needs and doesn't destroy. Who rages and doesn't become his father. Who loves you and lets you become without h
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