Braeden: Journal Entry # 1 (Patreon)
Content

I don't even know where to start tonight. My mind is racing, my chest feels hollow and every breath I take feels like its dragging shards of glass through my lungs.
I am currently at the cabin and feel completely out of place. The second I got here, there was really only one person I wanted to see. Lynn. We've barely spoken in months. So I went searching for her, thinking I could catch her alone; have a conversation. But God, when I opened that door, the wrong door, I wish l hadn't went searching in the first place.
She was with him. Him. And they were kissing. The second they caught me, staring, like some pathetic statue, I came up with the lame excuse of looking for the bathroom. I was looking for her, and I hated what I found.
She was smiling at him the way...

It hit me like a freight train - the way she was looking at him, like he was her whole world. That look...

She used to...

with her eyes full of love and warmth and trust. And I ruined it. I took it all for granted.
My sister set me up, I hate my home life, my mother can no longer stand me and my father lives to control me. Chloe is out there with our son...her son and I don't think I'll ever get to lay eyes on him again but this...this is what's truly breaking me.
She's moved on. She's happy. And I'm...l'm a wreck.
I keep going over it in my head, replaying every moment we had together. All the times I should've been better. I should've shown her how much she meant to me. She wasn't asking for the world, even though she was...

All she ever wanted was...




More of me. And I couldn't even give her that. I was too focused on myself, on my own needs, my own problems. I made her feel like she wasn't enough when she was always everything.
And now I've lost her. Not just as a girlfriend, but as my best friend, the one person who knew me better than anyone else ever will.
I miss her. I miss her laugh, her ridiculous jokes, the way she'd always hum under her breath when she was deep in thought. I miss the way she used to light up when she saw me, the way she believed in me, even when I didn't deserve it. I miss her.
Tonight I realized something that has crushed me even more: she's going to be okay without me. She's already okay. She's smiling, she's living, she's loving. And me? I feel broken. Like there's this massive hole in my chest that nothing will ever fill.
I know I should let her go, let her be happy, but it hurts so damn much. She's not mine anymore. She'll never be mine again. And that's all on me. I wish I could have done better for her.
I keep saying that I miss my best friend but really...

and I'm not sure I'll ever recover from this.
-Brae