I can see us lost in the memory; August slipped away into a moment of time, ‘cause you were never mine.

“Hey, it’s nothing personal, right?” Nat questioned, raising her eyebrows as she gazed up at you from your bed. “I just— we can’t keep doing this.”

She chewed on her bottom lip, her bleached hair pressed against your headboard.

You two had been ‘together’ for a month— August. Though, now that it was over, and school was starting back up, it seemed that you two couldn’t go on.

“I mean, you’re moving away, and.. I’ll be here. You don’t need that attachment.”

It’s true— you were leaving for college in a week. But it was hard looking at that face and accepting the fact that you’re leaving that behind.

“I mean, you were never mine.”