I laid in his arms that night and cried.
The tears flowed sliently down my cheeks.
The look in his eyes, the way he felt as we held each other.
I knew it was all coming to the end.
It had been hovering for to long for it not to.
I wanted to wipe the last year away and bump into him in a club, take him home and stay up all night talking about the universe and how we would fix the world.
Instead he had become a close friend of my boyfriend at the time and an even closer friend to me.
All though the shit, he held my hand and told me i was strong enough to know what was good for me. To have what i wanted and not look back.
There were moments i just wanted to hide away with him and let him soothe it without all the words that wouldn't come close to being what he meant.
After the break up and the anger it all lulled and almost reverted to the good times. Sitting around late at night, giggling about bullshit and drinking till the sun came up.
There was already a clear distance.
Neither of us wanted to hurt him so we avoided the natural chemistry and kept convo straight and unlaced with the constant flirt we both have.
The text became intermittent and on and off we fell out due to nasty things my ex said, and his need to keep the peace.
I had enough of feeling like i had lost my best friend just because my ex couldn't keep his lips off the bottle. I dragged him out for a night. Took him to a gay club and danced the night away. I wished i had done it more often.
Sat outisde at 2am in the cold talking through our families and childhoods for an hour waiting for my boyfriend to come find us.
I felt at home.
He was someone that i could talk to about anything and even if he didn't understand he certainly wouldn't judge me. But it was more than that. I was content. Happy.
For so long i thought people don't understand because they haven't been through the same things as me, its bullshit. They choose not to understand. Choose not to listen because whats happened to them is far more painful or important. He embraced it, wanted to know me.
Wanted to know what triggered me to do things, what drove me. Why i craved and desired things. I didn't always have the answers and i guess thats what I've always wanted, someone to push me further than i push my self.
That last night, i watched my ex drink the last of our relationship and friendship that he thought he could save.
We both watched him do it in silence, until we all got home. My ex continued his behavior until i asked him to go to bed to save little dignity.
Far from worked.
An hour later i had packed my bags, ushered my friends from his appartment and ripped open his forehead in an attempt to escape a rather nasty grip on the bed.
We all went to my mates, one by one my friends trickled off to bed or home. Left us alone with the sun coming up. He spilled the beans on what had been going on and all the lies. As usual i had to just remind him as far as i was concerned as long as i have his friendship everyone else can fuck off with there small minded bullshit. We both knew were we stood and what we wanted from each other.
I dawned on me that realistically i wasn't going to be back in that area for a long time, and his lack of persistence would lead to all of it crumbling. He told me he was finding it hard having us both in his life.
I knew this was coming. My ex lives in his flats and I'm 60 miles away, there friendship is to easy to have even though it doesn't come close to how ours feels.
So now I've lost probably one of my best friends just because my ex is a stupid cunt that i thought he was.
Selfish.
vindictive.
cunt.
cunt.
cunt.
cunt. He soothed me that night. He ran his fingers through my hair and told me stop crying.
dont cry rea.
i could see him holding it all back. he laid there quitely and let me spill it all out. when i left he couldn't even look me in the eye.
The sting of those tears i think ill forever be able to taste.
mood:  lonely music: Please forgive me-Bryan adams |