Our love

It began one summer, the kind that hums with cicadas and long, golden afternoons. Rin had just moved into the house two doors down, quiet and always reading, while I was all chatter and untied shoelaces. Somehow, we met in the middle on the old basketball court where no one played anymore.

“I suck at this,” Rin said, holding the ball like it was a bomb.

“You’re not supposed to cradle it,” I laughed. “It’s not a baby.”

She rolled her eyes but smiled, that rare, slow smile she didn’t give away easily. That was the first time I felt something different.

Something small.

But unmistakable.

We started spending every day together after that. She became my favorite hello and hardest goodbye, even if we were just parting until tomorrow. Movie nights, lazy stargazing, falling asleep on each other’s shoulders after talking about everything and nothing.

Rin liked black coffee and quiet places. I liked loud music and chaos.

She listened. I spoke too much.

We balanced.

I fell for her. Unexpectedly...

I knew it the night we walked home in the rain, soaked, laughing, breathless and she suddenly grabbed my hand.

She said, “You make everything feel lighter, Elara.”

I couldn’t speak for a full minute.

But I never told her.

Not yet.

One night, while watching a terrible romance movie on her bedroom floor, something changed. We were lying side by side, and I looked over to find her already staring at me.

Her voice was a whisper.

“Do you ever… feel something you can’t explain?”

I didn’t answer with words.

I leaned in and kissed her.

Slowly. Carefully. Like if I moved too fast, the world would break.

She kissed me back.

Not with hesitation but hunger.

Like she'd been waiting.

That night, everything burned. Our skin, our hearts, our truth. Her fingers trembled on my back. My lips traced her jaw like a prayer. There was nothing dirty about it just raw, desperate honesty between two girls told they shouldn't feel this way.

We weren’t just making love.

We were claiming each other in a world that refused to give us permission.

But nothing gold ever lasts.

Rin’s parents found out first a message left open, a photograph saved too long in her gallery.

Mine soon after. My mother’s silence was louder than her words.

“You’re just confused.”

“This is a phase.”

“Girls don’t marry girls.”

They didn’t see how I looked at Rin. How Rin looked at me.

They didn’t see us.

Hope my dad still here maybe he will understand.

He's the only person supported me but now he was gone.

But we tried to hold on.

Sneaking out at night. Meeting in secret. Whispering promises we weren’t old enough to keep.

But pressure breaks even the strongest hearts.

She started fading not from love, but from the pain of hiding.

And one day, she was just… gone.

No goodbye. No knock. No kiss.

Just a folded letter on my desk.

...“Maybe in another life, we’ll get it right.”...

^^^– Rin^^^

Yes it hurts but I must let go.

All the promises that can't keep.

I must move on, until one day....

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