I Don’t Need Your Fake Love by Melandia

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After countless sleepless nights, I surprisingly caught some solid Zs on the flight

In my dreams, Antonio’s face kept showing up, like he was just waiting for me there.

Back when we were just seven, we used to play games together.

He’d tell me he was the groom, and I was the prettiest bride,

When we turned eighteen, we made that game real,

He vowed to hustle hard and give me a grand wedding,

But when did things start to fall apart between us?

Did it start after Stella showed up, or was it before that?

I couldn’t even remember it anymore.

Antonio had been the center of my world for as long as I could remember.

No matter how much I tried to stay cool and get over him, it felt like my insides were being torn apart.

Once I landed, I didn’t even have the guts to turn on my phone.

“Grace!”

My mom was waving at me, standing out in a sea of foreigners.

It had been ages since we last saw each other.

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She wasn’t the same woman I remembered, sitting on the couch, crying, waiting for my dad to come home.

She was older, but she exuded more charm than before.

“You’ve grown so much,” she said, her voice filled with wonder.

My mom kept touching my face, saying sorry over and over again.

I just let go and hugged her tight.

I’m not holding it against

first before seeking love

I both made

been calling non–stop,”

tears, but hers

choose, I’m with you all the way,” she said, supporting

phone was blowing up with calls and messages from Antonio.

I could even catch up on the latest, another call was

voice laden with stress, like he was holding the

never heard Antonio this worked up

in the picture, why was he

to explain, “Grace, have you

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Stella. I promise you. She’s just like a sister

to me.

in the tears you’ve left on my journal pages. I’ve been remiss, but it was never my intention to

was feeling kind of spaced

you think you’re obligated to stay with me, but that’s why I’m walking away. It’s to set us

happy with

“Why the tears?”

shining moment, the highlight of

the most brilliant, the most vivid chapter

his memory that I put in the work to get him back

he was living it up with Stella, soaking in the glory days, I

to business associates, doing whatever it

drinks till I was senseless, so wasted I nearly lost our

that registered with him.

held onto was the heady, fantastical

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lying to me that it was a

to keep alive was

had the chance to reclaim his true

he miss

said, “Grace, you ditched the wedding to teach me a lesson, didn’t you? You’ve got it bad for me, so much that my recent lack of attention

slide. Grace, whatever you do, I’m