Replying...
Intro. I promised myself it was over. That the final point was given, underlined, definitive. I deleted messages, avoided places, trained my heart not to race when I heard his name. But some stories don't end when we decide—they stay silent, waiting for a breach. It was on an ordinary night, one of those in which nostalgia arrives disguised as curiosity, that everything returned. A simple message, with no apparent emotion, but heavy enough to crack the armor I had built. I knew exactly where it could lead. I knew the risk, the pain, the fall. Even so, I answered. Because relapses don't start with a hug or a kiss. They start with the illusion that, this time, maybe it would be different.

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@Emochi Voyager