y/n thinks if she distanced herself from him, maybe it wouldn’t affect him.
if she could point at something and say there.
maybe she could stop feeling guilty.
when she’s with people she loves.
that’s what makes it worse.
he calls her baby in that stupid soft voice.
he notices when she gets quiet.
he notices when she lies.
he loves her in all the ways she always thought she wanted.
which means it has to be something.
so her brain starts looking.
not because she misses them.
not because she’s jealous.
just because they existed before her.
and maybe if she can convince herself they were prettier or happier or easier—
then maybe she can explain why she feels the way she does.
she starts wondering things.
did he ever look at them and think this is easy?
because y/n feels impossible.
too much and not enough at the same time.
sometimes she’ll be laying next to him and suddenly think—
i bet she didn’t ruin moments like this.
and then she hates herself immediately.
because chris isn’t doing anything wrong.
he’ll literally be holding her.
looking at her like she’s enough.
he deserves somebody lighter.
one night she’s at his house.
he’s laying next to her talking about something.
not because she doesn’t care.
she just can’t stop thinking.
he reaches over and grabs her hand.
he stares for another second.
his hand stays over hers.
she looks away immediately.
he brushes her hair back.
because she already knows this conversation.
pulls her into his chest.
because he sounds scared.
“…do you miss your exes?”
she immediately regrets it.
“where did that come from?”
she starts picking at her fingers.
“…sometimes i think they were probably easier.”
his face changes instantly.
his eyebrows pull together.
“i feel like i make everything heavy.”
“and i don’t know why i’m like this.”
he immediately reaches for her.
which is embarrassing because she wasn’t even sad a second ago.
“you do everything right.”
his expression softens immediately.
she starts crying harder.
“so i keep thinking maybe there’s a reason.”
“so i think about your exes.”
“because maybe if somebody else did this better then it makes sense.”
chris just stares at her.
“…you think i want somebody else?”
she shakes her head immediately.
“chris, you don’t understand your love will never be the cure.”
“you keep trying to love me out of feeling like this.”
his eyes fill immediately.
“and i know you mean well.”
“but i don’t think you can.”
“i thought if i loved you enough…”
“…you wouldn’t hurt anymore.”
y/n immediately grabs his hand.
“you loving me isn’t failing.”
“i’m just sick of trying to find reasons for something that doesn’t always have one.”
not because he thinks it’ll fix her.
not because he thinks she’ll wake up okay.
flou -haven’t wrote in a while, this is so bad.
tags - @sturnsraw @sturnvinyls