We were stronger together. What a cheesy statement, but in truth that was us. Stronger, better, happier together. You and me against the world… There are countless ways to describe it, to describe us. In short, we would be that couple, those high school sweethearts. Our love was going to last.

But it didn’t.

One day after another, it became more and more difficult to feel as though our love was infinite. Honestly, we should have known better. False love is not only blind, but sometimes it deaf as well. We couldn’t hear the warnings we were giving each other or the signs everyone else were trying to make so clear to us. We ignored it, and that’s on us. Everyday just plummeted us further and further down into not only losing the other as a couple, but as a friend as well. My closest friend.

I left.

I would lie if I said moving on was easy. It wasn’t. I would also be lying if I said that you never cross my mind. You do, but it isn’t painful like it was right after I left. Everyday got better, and I learned from my past. I regret nothing about you, and I sometimes wonder if you regret anything about me. It shouldn’t matter anymore, but questions left unanswered are bothersome, and I don’t want that sort of frustration.

I tried to forget you.

I wanted to move away from those loose ends. I needed to get away from it all. Our lives weren’t meant to be together, so staying away was the easy part. My mind was the difficult. Staying busy during the day, books, chores, writing, singing, dancing, anything to just keep you out of my mind. Then night would come, and a day’s work of staying busy is almost pointless since you were the first thing that would come to mind as soon as my head reached my pillow. What ifs, and I wonders never left, and it just would not stop. This went for weeks after, but fortunately for me it did stop. My nights were peaceful.

Years pass.

My life moved forward, and from what I had heard yours did too. You were finding your way, and I couldn’t have been happier for you. Knowing you were doing well made me believe that the chapter of our lives we shared together was over. It made the future easier to imagine.

Then the day came, when I saw you again.

I was unprepared, not expecting to see you for one, and I certainly could not expect the emotions that came with running into you. It could have been avoided. One of us could have looked away and kept walking. We could have just left one another alone and have forgotten the encounter as quickly as we noticed the other.

Instead you looked into my eyes and said hi, nothing more… Nothing less. I looked at you and like the nostalgic girl I am, I remembered everything I tried so hard to forget. Everything about you came back, every moment, every smile, every hug, every laugh came back and hit me harder than after we broke up. I looked back at you and saw that in your eyes, you were feeling the same. We remembered each other as if no years had passed between us. A smile spread across my face, and I tried hard to remember how to form words. Everything I needed to say, the I’m sorries, the how are yous, the catching up that I wanted to happen so badly would remain on the tip of my tongue.