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There Was a Moment That Didn’t Look Like Anything…
But Everything Shifted.

There was a moment she told me about later —
small, almost forgettable —
but it stayed with her.

They were sitting together one night,
close enough that she could feel the quiet warmth of him,
and for a while everything felt easy…
steady…
almost too aligned.

Then something in his expression tightened,
so subtly she questioned whether she imagined it.
A soft pull inward.
A breath that didn’t fully land.
A shift behind his eyes
like he’d stepped somewhere she couldn’t follow.

He didn’t move away.
He didn’t change his tone.
He didn’t say a word.

But the room felt different.

She told me she felt a flicker of panic —
the sense that something had just closed
without any sound at all.

At the time, she didn’t understand it.
She only knew his energy had gone quieter,
as if he were holding something delicate inside himself
and didn’t want it touched.

It was the first moment
she realized closeness with him
came with an invisible line.

And once you feel that line…
you start watching for it everywhere.

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