You know how some people just click. The moment you meet them, there's that feeling inside you that yes, this is the one. You and I were the same, Rahul. We just clicked.

Since that day, it's been like a dream for me.

I was weird. I was awkward. I was afraid that I was meant to be alone. But then, there you were. You stood like an umbrella, shielding me from the rain of emotions. Understanding me, mending me; and caring for me.

I'm sure even you didn't know when it happened. For us, love just happened.

One day we were friends and the next day I was there, down on my knees, laying out my heart to you.

I guess I'm a virus. Becacuse my awkwardness spread to you that day. You became silent. You went into a shell. And for the first time since we met, I was afraid again.

You can't even imagine my happiness when I received that letter yesterday. Even though I always wanted it to be a yes, at the bottom of my heart, I was just happy that you replied. Even if it had been a no, I would have been happy that you spoke.

You know Rahul, it's really funny how you felt the need to ask if I'd be your Valentine? Since I had already proposed to you, this was just a redundant question. I was always gonna say yes.

Yes, I was always going to say yes.
But that was till yesterday Rahul.

Today, you've forced me to think again.

That fake bond on which you tried to build our relationship, that's something I've never liked. For me, just your words would have been enough. You were always the poet of my dreams who would write the poems on me.

But then, you tried to be someone who you never were. You tried to bribe me in your love, lure me into your trap. I thought you to be different, but just like every other rose, you too showed your thorns.

And now, I'm afraid to bleed by those thorns.

No, Rahul, I'm not breaking up. I don't have that courage to lose you. But I just want a little time to think.

I have a tough decision to make. And I want to be alone while deciding. Either I'll learn to live without you or to live with your thorns.

Though poems are not my style, I'll leave with a couple of lines to think of.

How happy we were
Sailing on our skies
Then why did you try to bring
Those fake emotions in our ties

Why Rahul, why?

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'Love may bond, love may break
But the hearts always remain eternal'