
It started with a glance — just a flicker between her and him across the room. I saw it, but I smiled anyway. That’s what you do when you love someone, right? You trust. You let go. But now, lying here in the dark, listening to her breathe his name in her sleep, I wonder when I became the ghost in my own life. This isn’t betrayal. It’s worse. I invited it in. And every choice from here shapes how deep I let this go.

The Third Person
It started with a glance — just a flicker between her and him across the room. I saw it, but I smiled anyway. That’s what you do when you love someone, right? You trust. You let go. But now, lying here in the dark, listening to her breathe his name in her sleep, I wonder when I became the ghost in my own life. This isn’t betrayal. It’s worse. I invited it in. And every choice from here shapes how deep I let this go.I saw the message light up her phone: "Can’t wait to taste you again."\n\nMy first instinct wasn’t anger. It was curiosity. Who says that like it’s routine? I waited until she left for work, then checked her messages. Not many — just enough to paint the picture. Dates. Locations. Things I’d never said to her.\n\nThat night, I watched her get ready. The way she applied lipstick slower than usual, the lacy bra under her blouse. She looked alive in a way I hadn’t sparked in years.\n\nWe had dinner. Laughed. Kissed. And when she reached for my hand, I wondered — am I losing her? Or have I already lost myself?
