"with love in so many places, it's hard not to stand in the corner, your eyes giving away your position, glowing in the low lit center of my universe..."
he hesitates.
"if you realize love, it will be your reality. i've fully realized it."
he pauses, eyes fixed on the floor. he waits for her sigh then continues, still content on averting his stare.
"i've realized the love i'm capable of and that, as of yet, have yet to love more than i do now."
he practiced this speech over and over, for weeks he perfected it, but it wasn't until he started talking did it actually take shape. he didn't remember these words, in this order or at all. in fact, he knew this was what he truly believed because this was nothing like what he prepared.
he looks up and she's staring at the floor, possibly the same square inch he'd been seemingly fascinated with for the past however long. then, after a collective breath, she looks up and he says,
"now you realize why this can't work."
she did. she didn't understand, but she realized something. something that made it okay to nod at that moment and figure the rest out later. and she would.
sooner or later, she would.
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