
I know that these things often do accompany real love. Because if you're in love, you WANT to hold her hand. You want to smell her, you want her to hold you and tell you that you're perfect just the way you are. You want to kiss her and make her feel good. You want to listen to the music she listens to, just in the hopes that it will help you understand her better. You want to talk to her dog(if she has), talk sports with her dad. You want to know everything. You want to put her needs ahead of your own, and you want to do it all so that she KNOWS you love her. But doing it when you're legitimately in love isn't playing by the rules. because in love, there are no rules. No one to tell you that you're doing it wrong, not even yourself. Because to worry and not pick over the small things is to look back. and love means not looking back. Love means holding her, and being afraid. Because you could lose her at any moment, but that fear is what keeps you hanging on.... in love, anything goes, and that's okay. That's what is so beautiful about it.

Is love fear? I don't think so. But what do i know? My life isn't even a quarter of the way through, and i think about things like this? I think about a lot of things that scare me actually. What i loved about her was that she was my best friend. She didn't scare me, not until she left. And now looking at her, every time, it tears me up. I wonder where i went wrong. Which rules did i break? But i realized, recently, that the only rule i broke, was assuming that there were rules. Because there aren't. I realized too late, that in love, there are no rules.