I haven't been sad in a very long time now. It's almost like I've forgotten how it feels to sit in a corner of a dark room, hugging my knees close to my chest and shaking like a solitary leaf on a rotting plant stuck in the middle of a thunderstorm. I don't feel the hollow in my heart anymore. The gnawing pit of resentment and sorrow has somehow vanished down the years.
You weren't the first person to pause a football match to take my call when I had an anxiety attack over my new job. You weren't the first person to tell me that my eyes reminded you of solar eclipses. I'm sorry but I have already been called a sugarbun and a bunny. I'm sorry but I have had romantic boat rides before. I have had someone else dedicating sonnets to me. I have already danced to that song with someone else before. So, I don't listen to songs anymore and that's why you send me lyrics. I don't do poetry anymore and that's why you send me memes. I'm scared of the water now and that's why you take me "swimming" on the couch. I don't like sweet nicknames anymore and that's why you call me "bro". I don't like the colour brown anymore and that's why black is your favorite colour now. I don't like football anymore and that's why you decided 'Netflix and chill' is now all about watching Frozen and Moana.
So I have to tell you that your fingers that fit so perfectly with mine, the space between your shoulders and the sheepish smile on your face that you get after messing up my cupboards trying to find your tie are what I call home now.
-Arpita M.

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Hi there. I just wanted to inform you that I won't be updating daily anymore. I'll still try to update once or twice every week because though my love for writing is huge, my love for not being kicked out of my house for flunking my exams is greater. Yeah, my mom said she'll kick me out if I don't take my studies seriously and college is crazy! So, anyway do not forget me just 'cause I'll be a little irregular. I repeat, DO NOT forget me. Pretty please?
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