Because I may have asked you to stay away from me for my brothers' sake and your own at the beginning, but lately I've been asking you for my own sake. [ she is the one that wants him to stay away. she is the one trying to get over him and she is trying to do the right thing, and he doesn't make that easy. ]
We're not together anymore.
[ there's a finality to those words that cut her, but maybe they have to. ]
That's not going to change. [ and that's not on her. it's on him. she blinks back tears and wills her voice not to shake. to find the place where her bravery has gone missing. ] You need to let me go.
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Because I may have asked you to stay away from me for my brothers' sake and your own at the beginning, but lately I've been asking you for my own sake. [ she is the one that wants him to stay away. she is the one trying to get over him and she is trying to do the right thing, and he doesn't make that easy. ]
We're not together anymore.
[ there's a finality to those words that cut her, but maybe they have to. ]
That's not going to change. [ and that's not on her. it's on him. she blinks back tears and wills her voice not to shake. to find the place where her bravery has gone missing. ] You need to let me go.