YOU AND I, we were both too young to make promises.

I never believed in them, because it had never been proven to me that they're not meant to be broken. Yet, I took a chance, for you and our friendship.

We promised me that we would always have each other's back, believing in an eternity together.

Little did I know, it was all a mistake, a desperate attempt to live in the security of the bubble that you created for me.

We opened up to each other completely, without realising that it could've destroyed everything that we had.

Things were going as smoothly as ever between us, and we were genuinely happy. I thought this would never change.

Until it did, overnight.

Your past caught up to you, and when you chose to reconnect with it, you decided that I was going to be forgone.

They say: You can't have both things at the same time. Once you have one, you'll have to let go of the other.

In order to get back what you had lost, you gave me away, forgetting that I was there for you in your toughest time.

You pulled away from me. The distance between us grew each day. You stopped texting me at night, and I was no longer a part of your conversations. Your eyes no longer looked my way when we were in the same room, and your face was no longer lit up when you talked to me. Your cold eyes and blank look terrified me.

It was as though the sparks from the very first days were gone, and you became a stranger.

Just when you were starting to become a significant part of my life, you walked away and took that part of me with you. You locked me away in a corner of your mind and left me there like I'd never existed.

Only then did I realise that maybe I wasn't as important to you as you were to me.

All of a sudden, there was just me, left with harmless yet broken promises, wondering if I'd done something wrong.

And the worst part was that I didn't blame you at all. I blamed myself for trusting the wrong person. I punished myself for the non-existent mistakes that could have ruined what was once there between us. Having my mind taken over by it every second and having to sleep on it every night was torturous.

Suddenly, you just became a toxic thing in my life that I no longer needed.