To the Friend I Caught Feelings for, I Wish I Was the One You Wanted

You were my best friend for a time. I knew you. I thought you knew me. 

But you were blind. You couldn’t see that I loved you. 

You hurt me without meaning to, which made it even worse. 

Every day that I saw you, my heart broke because I miss you. You were my friend, I miss that.

I should never have told you that I liked you. It ruined everything. 

I lost a friend that day, even if you said it was fine. It wasn’t. 

I miss movie marathons at your house, making jokes, talking about everything under the sun. I wasn’t like the girls you pursued, I actually knew you, I was actually interested. 

You made me feel worthless. 

How can I ever find someone who genuinely loves me when the guy who knew me best didn’t give me a second glance? 

You’ll find someone. You always do. But you want to skip the hard parts, you don’t know how to be in a relationship. 

You don’t know what you’re looking for.

I wish you were looking for me.

I understand now that I’ll never be the girl for you. I never was. I built up what we had into something that it wasn’t. 

I mistook friendliness for flirtation, kindness for desire, and shared laughs as something more than two friends joking around. 

I wish it didn’t end this way.

I regret not keeping up our friendship. I know we would’ve had fun together.

I’m sorry that I told you.

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Hannah Knodel

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