If He Had Been with Me

If he had been with me, everything would have been different.

If he had been with me, everything would have been different

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It was a good time for us, first semester. It was the sort of happiness that fools you into thinking that there is still so much more, maybe even enough to laugh forever.

“Sasha wants you to know that she’s sorry. She wants to talk to you, but she’s going to wait for you to call her.”

“Sasha and I have discovered that we have feelings for each other.”

“Look, all your reasons are really stupid,”

“You need me a lot, and it’s more than I can handle. You’re depressed all the time

It’s possible to love two people at once, but could it be possible to stay loyal to one?

It’s possible to love two people at once, but could it be possible to stay loyal to one?

Like all things that have become history, I now feel as if I always knew it, as if all through this story, it had been lurking in the shadows. The story underneath the story.