The Person You Choose
"Now what?"
"Now ending." He said it flat, the grief visible, the honesty that cost him. "Or becoming something else. The kind of love that is distance, that is memory, that is—" He stopped, found the word. "That is still trying. Messed up and not finished and still here, even when it's hard. Especially then."
They stood. Separated, the space between them becoming literal, physical, the distance that was also choice, also love, also the boring real they had wanted and finally, possibly, reached.
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