It’s easier to pretend it’s not real when I don’t have to see them together. I can just go about my life, pretending that he’s still waiting for me to show up at his door someday. But maybe Max is right. I won’t be able to move on until I’ve faced my new reality. That’s how grief works, right? You work through the stages until one day, you finally reach acceptance. I’m not sure I’ll ever get there, that I’ll ever accept that Auden’s heart doesn’t belong to me anymore and never will again, but I have no chance if I keep allowing myself to live in a fantasy world and pretending that none of this
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