Post 4 - The Love She Couldn’t Show Loudly
She said “I love you.”.. not once.. not casually... not out of habit... She said it like she meant it... and I believed her... because I didn’t just hear it… I saw it... She wasn’t loud with her love... She didn’t flood my phone with dramatic paragraphs... She didn’t make grand scenes in crowded places... She didn’t hold onto me like the world was watching... but her love was there... it lived in her eyes... There’s a difference between someone saying “I love you” and someone looking at you like they do. When she looked at me, her guard would fall just a little... not completely… just enough for me to see what she didn’t always know how to show.. she loved quietly... carefully.. Like someone who had learned that love is beautiful... but also fragile... sometimes I wished she would be louder about it... say more... show more... hold tighter... but then she would look at me... and everything I was asking for would be there... in the way her eyes softened when I was tired... in the w...