Let Me Go
I can’t make you love me,
want me, or understand me.
All I can do is hope that someday you will.
You should move, you should just get out of here. This didn’t feel right. You were wondering why you were still on this bed. Your place wasn’t beside him, you didn’t belong here. You knew it, It killed you but you came back everytime, blinded by your love for him. Blinded by your one side love for a man who didn’t want it.
He was next to you on the bed, his back facing you, hiding his face from your stare. You wanted to help him, to make him feel better but everytime that you came back in his appartment, you were the one getting hurt. Him, the one who was so talkative, didn’t say more than two sentences to you now. Him, who always had a smile on his face, was now always wearing a cold mask to hide his sad heart.
He didn’t look at you the way you wanted him to. You couldn’t find any hint of affection in his eyes. What were you to him ? Why did he still call you late at night asking you to come to his place ? Were you just nothing more than an object to him ? Was he always thinking of another woman while being with you ? Was she always in his mind ? Could anyone take your place beside him ?
Maybe he knew, you were the only one weak enough to accept to stay with him despite not being the first woman in his heart. Who could stay in a place full of pictures of another woman. It felt like she was still living here, he kept all her stuff. Seing his place, no one could have guessed that she died four years ago. You knew he was lost without her, she was the love of his life. You weren’t strong enough to beat that but it didn’t stop you to meet him.
You couldn’t leave him alone, you loved him too much and you felt so bad toward him. Everytime you saw Jin’s face or the pictures of her, you felt guilty, you thought she was dead because of you. It was a foolish idea and you knew that but you couldn’t stop yourself thinking that if you had never wished her death, she would still be here. She was all you wanted to be, a beautiful, nice, loved, woman. She had everything, a good personnality, lots of friends, a sucessful career and she had Jin. You hated her, you wanted her life, you wanted to be her. Thinking about it now, you just needed to have her boyfriend, him and only him. You couldn’t make a move because all you wanted was his happiness, and he was happy with her, they were made for each other, they were deep in love. You didn’t want to do anything that could have break their relationship, but you couldn’t stay away from him.
You buried your feelings inside of you and stayed as his friend. You were hurting yourself and you hated her so much. You were feeling more pathetic everyday. Soon you started to imagine life without her being here. It felt so good, so real, you even dreamed about it. But when your fantasy came alive, your life complety changed. During a whole year, Jin stayed at his place, going out only when it was necessary, not meeting anyone even you, it break your heart you wanted to see him, you needed to see him.
About a week after the first anniversary of her death, he called you asking you to meet him at his flat. When you got there, he didn’t say a word, he just grabbed you by your shoulders and kissed you. You could have resisted back then, but he was finally giving what you were waiting for all this years. Without anytime wasted all clothes were on the floor and he was pushing you on the bed.
Everything about that night was blur, all you could remember was that he kept his eyes closed during the whole night. Did he looked at you just once during the last three years ? You were sure, he was imagining her while being with you. This relation was toxic, but you always craved for more when you weren’t with him.
But after three years you were growing tired of this, you didn’t just desire him anymore, you needed more, you wished to feel love, to be special and he didn’t make you feel like that at all. You were just a replacement. You couldn’t accept this anymore, it was over. You quietly stood out of the bed, dressed up and went to the kitchen. You didn’t want to face him because you knew he had the power to make you stay. You grabbed a pen and a paper wanting to leave him a note :
“ I want you to know that I don’t regret any of the nights I spent with you. You were and you still are a person I deeply care about. That’s why I accepted to stay by your side everytime you wanted me to and that’s also why I decided to stop all of this now. I thought that maybe I could heal you but I realised that you will only be able to move on when I’ll be out of your life. I sincerely hope you’ll find the one who will make you feel better.
- Your friend Y/N ”
Until the end, you stayed as nothing more than a friend. You looked at his place one last time, you felt scared to leave but you knew it was for the best, you could finally move on. You went back to his bedroom’s door, he was sleeping without even noticing that you weren’t in the bed anymore. You were sad but you knew that you should leave.
You knew that if you stayed longer you will regret your decision. You quickly went out of his flat, not seeing the single tear falling of Jin’s cheek.