Shay began openly growing closer to Milo at the company.
It was as if she treated me like a bystander who did not matter at all.
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One day, for reasons I could not even explain, I opened a music app.
Then I logged into an old music account.
It was the account Shay and I had shared ever since we started dating.
There were a lot of playlists in it.
Over the years, I had made every single one of them for her.
There were anime songs she liked, old love ballads, pop hits, and more.
There were even comedy specials we had once listened to together, curled up under the blankets.
But that day, I discovered that every playlist had been deleted.
And under the account's following list, there was a new user.
Shay and Milo were following each other.
On the very account she and I had once shared.
Was she really that impatient?
I did not even know whether she was doing it on purpose, or if she simply did not care about me at all.
That was the first thing I chose to put up with.