**“Sometimes loving two people means losing both.”**
*Scene: A dimly lit café on a rainy evening. The rain gently taps the windows as three figures sit in uneasy silence — Maya, Liam, and Ethan.*
**Maya:** (whispering, voice trembling) I never thought it would come to this… sitting here, pretending everything’s okay when my heart is shattered in two.
**Liam:** (staring at his coffee, voice low) You chose him, Maya. You chose Ethan over me, didn’t you?
**Ethan:** (his jaw tight, eyes flick between Maya and Liam) Don’t say that, Liam. Maya— we can figure this out. You’ve been with me from the start.
**Maya:** (shakes her head slowly) No, Ethan, you don’t get it. I never wanted to *choose.* How could I? You both own pieces of me that I can't separate.
**Liam:** (voice breaking) You promised you loved me. That you’d be mine—only mine.
**Maya:** I thought I loved only one person too. But love isn’t tidy or fair. It’s messy. Painful. And right now, I’m torn.
**Ethan:** (reaching across the table, pleading) Maya, tell me you want this. Tell me you want *me*.
**Maya:** (pulling her hand back, almost bitter) I want *both* of you. But I’m scared. Scared of losing you, scared of hurting you.
***
*Flashback: The three of them together, laughter and stolen glances.*
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**Liam:** (softly) Why didn’t you say anything? Why hide this from me?
**Maya:** (looking away) Because I was afraid. You were my safe place, my home. But then Ethan showed me a side of myself I didn’t know existed — wild, reckless, alive. I was living two lives and breaking my own heart trying to keep them balanced.
**Ethan:** (voice rough) I never wanted to hurt you, Maya. Or Liam. But I needed to be honest with how I felt.
**Liam:** Honesty comes with consequences. And now we’re stuck in this nightmare because of it.
**Maya:** (tears falling) What nightmare? Loving you both was never meant to be a curse, but I turned it into one. How do you choose between the man who grounds you and the one who makes you fly?
**Ethan:** Maybe you don’t choose. Maybe we redefine what love means.
**Liam:** (laughs bitterly) Redefine? This isn’t some fairytale. It’s pain, jealousy, and broken trust.
**Maya:** (looking from one to the other) Neither of you has lost anything yet. The real choice is whether we fight for what this is… or give up because it’s too complicated.
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*Liam’s hand trembles as he reaches for Maya’s, eyes searching hers for a hint of certainty.*
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**Liam:** I don’t want to lose you. But I can’t be second place in someone’s life.
**Ethan:** And I’m not just a reckless fling, Maya. I’m part of your soul now.
**Maya:** (voice cracking) You both are. That’s why this hurts so much. Because I can’t walk away from one without killing the part of me that belongs to the other.
**Liam:** (leans forward) So what now? Live forever in this limbo? Hurt everyone until there’s nothing left?
**Maya:** (closes her eyes, breathes deeply) No. I want to try. To find a way through this… even if it means being brave and breaking every rule.
**Ethan:** (smiles faintly) Maybe love is more than possession. Maybe it’s freedom, trust— chaos and beauty mixed.
**Liam:** (half-smiling despite himself) Chaos and beauty… sounds like us.
***
*The rain slows, the tension easing into a fragile hope.*
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**Maya:** (softly) I’m scared we’ll all get hurt. But I’m more scared of losing what we have without even trying.
**Liam:** Then we try. Together—even if it’s hard.
**Ethan:** Together.
***
*They sit quietly, united in uncertainty but bound by undeniable love.*
