Malik’s POV

You blink a second and you would miss it, distance wasn’t something you noticed all at once especially since it doesn’t announce itself with slammed doors or raised voices, it creeps through small things, pauses where there used to be laughter, you get answers that sound right yet they feel wrong, you find eyes looking at you without fully landing, that’s when you notice it…the space that did not always exist, it was how I noticed she was pulling away

She was still ...