you think you are hard to love,

but you don't see you like how I see you

you think I cannot accept you,

but I've always been waiting for you

C H A S E ♔

Maddie and her family talked for a long time afterwards. Honestly, I felt like an intruder in it all. I felt like I was listening to a conversation I shouldn't have, but I also wanted to be there for Maddie.

She was good at hiding how she truly felt, but through the short time that we've been together, I've been slowly able to decode the subtle signals she sent.

It was already midnight when...