unfinished snippets

Alike

You will learn, just as I have learned, to long for the taste of something you never even had in the first place. I'll seem like a dream at first—like nothing between us was real—and then afterwards will come the realization that it was all real. It was all real, and that's why now, you're hurting like you've never hurt before.

I've been told before that I bring out the worst in people. But you were one of the first to say that it was the good—not the bad—that came out around me instead.

It was a shock, that someone could think of me in that way. As a healer, not a destroyer. I think, because the feeling of being admired was so new, I took your words to heart too often. You're a bleeding heart, and you always will be, but between us, mine will always be cold.

There was nothing, no spark, no fire, just a lot of one sided promises and empty words made by a lonely girl seeking love. And I found it, all right, but it was different than how I thought it would be.

I thought other people felt love differently than I had—because the only real time I had felt it was for a boy who wouldn't give me a second glance—but somehow, the way your love for me consumed you, left you hollow inside? It was all too familiar. Perhaps we are alike in ways we never could've imagined.