People of Reddit, what's your true love story?

My story takes me back about 6 or 7 years ago.

I first met her when an ex-classmate of mine introduced her to me when we were talking on MSN (ah how I miss you MSN).

My friend added us to a chat and left us. It wasn't awkward or anything, we were talking a little but realized we had many common interests. Music. Movies. Food.

For a few days, we talked, laughed and eventually exchanged numbers. Eventually, about a week later, we decided to go out one day as a friend to friend sort of thing. And this continued for a while.

Eventually I decided that this was the person I was meant to be with. I was going to do this. I planned when I would ask her to be mine: The moment when fireworks of the new year blossomed in the skies.

Finally, the night of 31st December came and I called her. We talked until the new year and when the countdown came my heart beat faster and faster. Her voice faded in the background while I thought to myself, I didn't really know if I should ask her yet. What if she said no?

"5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. Happy New Ye-" "I think I'm in love with you." ".. Me too."

And yeah that was how it all started. For the next few years it was all happy and all, we went out a lot and had many late night phone calls hiding under our blankets. I guess I watched her grow through hard times and she watched me.

One day, after one of the many long hour phone calls, it finally dawned onto me that I was actually a distraction to her, affecting her studies and how I was a little on the possessive side, being too controlling.

Being too young to think it through, I broke up with her, promising I would wait for her until our studies were finished.

She asked for me to come back and I wanted to, but I was afraid the same thing would happen again, the day long phone calls to just to have each other somehow together, even though we didn't speak much, the distraction. The breakup however, only felt like it was a greater distraction.

With a heartbreaking decision made, I convinced her I didn't love her anymore. I told her horrible things and said to her things I never really meant. She kind of believed me in the end, and I guess that was what hurt me the most. The fact that she believed I would do such a thing.

I looked out for her ever since though, I still do. But she doesn't need to know it because she recently found another SO. I don't want her to get hurt again, like how I hurt her. And so, even though I waited, she didn't, because she believed that I didn't love her anymore.

Looking back, we didn't fight once in those few years we were together. And now I look back and realized, yeah we may have been young and wild but deep down, I know that she was the one for me and I hurt her and let her go.

If I had another chance I would chase after her all over again, never letting her go when I catch her. I don't know how to let her know that even after we started to see other people to move on, I actually do in fact still care for her even though she has probably moved on.

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