"Everybody hurts sometimes, everybody hurts someday."

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You pleaded through your sobs, practically begging me not to do this. Each cry of yours broke me to a point that I felt nothing on the inside— the feeling which has still managed to stay alive inside me till date though how much ever I tried to get rid of it. You demanded for the cause of this but all I could do was to say, "It's for your own good."

Despite me not telling you the reason, you had somehow guessed it. You asked me again and again whether you were right but I simply refused to answer since I couldn't put myself to tell a lie and break your heart further. I didn't even dare to admit how broken I felt when you cried bitterly on the other side of the call, saying nothing and just your soft sobs being audible. I thought that you were too immersed in grief to think right and cut the call, making me wonder if I should do it— perhaps end our last conversation before things changed. But my heart said otherwise and so I sat there listening to you cry, hearing your voice for the last time though it pained me.

And just like that, we were now strangers living our own life without each other— our mutual friends being the only way through which we were connected. I never heard from you after that, and I could just hope you were doing well. All these days, I have been holding back myself from calling you and telling you how much I have been missing you; but it was only fair on my part to give you space and focus on moving on.

Perhaps my decision was right, and you have already moved on past us.

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