i think you hurt me and i think, at the time at least i liked it.
i liked that someone listened to me that should’ve been the first red flag no one listens to me i mean no one like you listens to me.
and i didn’t think it odd or inappropriate i’m gay, i told you i didn’t think you were a threat and that should’ve been the second.
i didn’t think it was weird when you asked me for selfies because people swap selfies, right? i’ve sent some pretty hideous double chinned bedhead dead eyed selfies to my girlfriend how is it any different if it’s to a guy friend?
except it was different you asked to see my thigh gap my feet my lordotic back because you wanted to see how my muscular dystrophy affected me physically. that should’ve been the third.
you called me pet names. you told me you loved me. you said you would always be there for me when no one else was. fourth. fifth. sixth.
at first i thought it endearing and a platonic kind of love. but you don’t say those things to a girl you met on the internet i don’t.
i struggle saying those three words. they weigh me down and make me choke on air when i try to say them out loud so when you insisted i say them back, that you wouldn’t stop bugging me until i did, i panicked typed them, hit “send” and cried later and you told me it’s no big deal, everyone says “i love you” not me. never me. seventh flag.
you told me you’d visit you told me we were meant to be like a ****** up romeo and juliet you spent your nights talking me down off of suicidal ledges you thought you saved me you kept telling me to just ******* eat, that starving myself was stupid, that you couldn’t have me die on you, that you were supposed to die first “death is not a race,” i said “you’ll win anyway if i don’t save you,” you replied eighth flag. i didn’t like it anymore.
i think you hurt me. i can’t be too sure since you’ve convinced me you were just being friendly but i’m starting to come out of this fog you’ve put me in and i do believe you’ve hurt me.