Distance

Did it start a week, a couple months or a couple years ago?
Or has it always been there..?
On and off.

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I don't know who needs whom more.
One needs to talk and the other needs to listen.
One is in trouble and the other needs to know if everything's ok.
One is crying and scared and the other also is.
For different reasons.
380 miles away.

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His messages on my phone. So many of them. Some are funny, some are sad. Some freaked me out and made me cry. But so many of them make me smile.

I hope you smile too, love.

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Nights are the worst.

He has terrible nightmares and barely sleeps.
I'm scared something terrible might happen.
My phone stays by my bed.
Just in case..