HIS TO LOSE
Billie Eilish, SZA, Olivia Rodrigo, all the artists who understood what it felt like to love someone who didn’t love you back the same way.
“I love you, I’m sorry” played softly through my speakers.
I pulled up the hidden folder on my phone. The one I should have deleted years ago.
Us in his old Astoria apartment kitchen, making faces at the camera. Him shirtless, me in his t-shirt, both laughing at something I couldn’t remember anymore.
Him sleeping, peaceful, one arm stretched toward where I’d been lying next to him.
Me on his lap on the couch, his arms around my waist, chin on my shoulder, both of us watching something on TV.
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