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I fell in love with you. You were someone who was everything I was looking for: intelligent, unique, rebellious, yet loving at the same time.

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It’s in your gene pool, it’s on your sleeve, it’s in your zodiac sign, and not one horoscope is going to give you a different answer than the one you already know but are afraid to admit.

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I wanted you to look at me with more loving eyes than you did your girlfriend at that time.

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Oh, that feeling you have there? That’s called guilt. Explore it, examine it, understand it. Don’t justify it.

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Do you really think ‘this’ situation is what you deserve? Are you really going to be happy in the expense of having someone else hurt?

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After eight rounds of hoping I will this time be good enough, I am waving my white flag. I have accepted that you will never love me.

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You see why anyone would be lucky to love her. And then you see his face next to hers and he pales in comparison. She’s lovely…and come to think of it, you’re quite lovely too. And you realize that he’s the one who’s undeserving of it all.

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What you didn’t know was that he was texting me the entire time. He was telling me how much he missed me and still loved me — how he knew that he and I were meant to be.

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They seem happy. He sends her flowers. They attend weddings. She posts pictures of plane tickets, taking time off from work to make her long distance relationship work. She moves in. They seem happy.