A Letter to That Somebody I Used to Call 'I Love You'
Hey. I know you're busy and everything so I didn't bother asking how you've been. Nonetheless, I hope you'd take this time to read what I have to say. After all these months we haven't gotten the chance to talk much lately, don't you think? And this gap in space and time has given me the chance to stop my flustering and tell you things straight ahead.
I like you; I never stopped since high school, and it's so much more complicated than it was before. Then and now I keep on thinking about the what-ifs. And how wrong and 'too late' it is to tell you now, after, what, 3, 4 years? Well. I did tell you that I used to like you, but I guess I never got the same courage to admit that I still do.
For what it's worth, let me tell you as well that I'm hurt by this...this indifference, this distance that parted us since that last phone call. We never got to tie the loose ends again, did we? I thought it's for the best, but after some time, I realized that I was on the losing end, and the 'distance' didn't console me so much as I thought it would. But well. Look at you, all happy and cuddly with your new friends. Friends who probably treat you better than your old friends used to, your old friends who never do anything better than bully you and make you feel inferior just because you're somewhat different.
When I think about it, we, I probably deserve this cold treatment, for taking you too much for granted. For always thinking you'd be there, just like your promise before we went to college. But, then again. Who knows what awaits us in college. We're so caught up in what's in front of us that we began to forget what we used to have behind. Now wouldn't you agree with me that you're better off not having such a friend as me?
Even if I know you'd just brush off my apology and say "It's nothing," let me still say it. I'm sorry. For what I did. For not standing up for you when I had every chance to. For being the childish one in the friendship. For this very misplaced affection.
I don't want to tear us completely apart. You know how utterly scared I am at establishing friendships with guys, and you're one of the very few I succeeded in doing so. But if it's just not gonna work for us anymore, even at the least bit being the good friends we used to, then I guess the choice is no longer mine.