The notes desk

You're not who I thought I'd write to last.

I saved this one for someone unreachable. Someone gone, some beautiful tragedy. But the one I've been failing to reach is three feet away, typing with one thumb.

Everything works, so nothing gets said. We do mornings, we split bills, we say “we should do this more” and then we don't. It never feels like losing you. It feels like Tuesday.

Then one day it's “remember when.” No warning. An empty chair and a hundred unsent ordinary sentences.

So here's mine, sent early: you're my favorite part of most of my days. You make the ordinary stuff worth narrating. I noticed, and I'm saying it while it lands soft.

That's the whole note. No ask, no occasion. Just: you're still in the room, and I refuse to wait for the distance.

Five of five. That's the set.

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