Friends don’t pick and choose when to answer texts.
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Updated 4 years ago,June 20, 2021
Friends dont pick and choose when to answer texts.
Friends dont go missing for weeks and then suddenly appear again without an apology.
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They never leave each other hanging.
They never disappear without a word.
Friends dont make each other guess what is on their mind.
Friends talk about their deepest secrets.
They are open with each other, honest with each other.
Maybe thats why we dont talk anymore.
Because now that theres no chance of us getting together, theres no point in talking.
Theres nothing we have to gain.
Theres no reason to pick up the phone.
I only knew the surface layers.
The parts you were willing to show me.
I doubt you would be able to list off my favorite songs or animals or memories.
All of our time together was spentflirting.
Bantering back and forth.
We never spoke about anything real.
I never learned about your childhood or what your parents did for a living.
You never told me what your tattoos meant or where you spent the holidays.
Back then, I assumed you were quiet.
I assumed you needed more time to get comfortable around me and then you would start opening up.
I assumed it would only be a matter of time until the dynamic between us shifted.
I mean, we texted.
We spent plenty of time in the same room together, which is why I assumed we were friends.
I assumed you cared about me in the same way I cared about you.
I saw you as someone I could trust.
I saw you as one of the few people I actually enjoyed spending time alongside.
Obviously you felt differently.
You saw me as a stranger that you could flirt with when you were bored.
Someone you wouldnt let yourself gettooclose to.
Someone you considered temporary.
I was the only one who lost a friend.
I guess thats why getting over you has been so much harder for me than it was for you.
Because you were more to me than just some guy I flirted with.
