Unsent text message to Avery

I burned up your letters. My memory suits me better. Changed my name, made my move. I'm not the one who laid beside you. Forget before and close that door.

You will never know how my heart twists in pain every-time I think of you. I let silent tears drop till my collars are wet but I know I can’t reach for you. You are not real. You are just a figment of my imagination of what could be. A phantom I created in my head. Just potential. Not a person. A fantasy. An illusion…

Since the separation, the world has felt empty, and every path seems unfamiliar. I no longer know where I’m going or where I truly belong. My days keep passing, life goes on, and I do everything I’m supposed to do I show up, I talk, I laugh when I’m expected to, and I keep moving as if everything is perfectly fine…

I miss you. I love you. But I hate how it feels now. If I pull away you pull me close. If I come close you make cutting remarks and make me feel unwanted. Some days I think you are ashamed of me that you never acknowledge our friendship to the world. That you rub in your closeness to other people in my face every…

I really miss my friend and it kills me so much EVERY FREAKING DAY.

Ive always followed from the front.

And led from the back.

The first in the running,

And wont ever be last…