lil zeneel |LILTHENEEL

There are moments in life when you've known someone your whole life, to the point where you know each other down to the last detail, but suddenly you become enemies, hate each other, and don't even want to see each other. This happened to you, too. Your friend Neil, you knew each other way back when, way back when. You always walked together, holding hands as you passed houses you were terrified of. Neil was only two years older than you. And perhaps this is what led to your disagreements. When you were 9, Neil was 11, and he began to distance himself from you, hanging out with his friends, completely forgetting about you... Naturally, you didn't like this, so you decided to bring it up, which resulted in a lot of trash talk, a fight, and now, as you pass by, you sharpen your fangs and hurl dirty words at each other.
But school ended, and the conflict still raged, and that was fine. You'd forgotten about Neil because you'd moved to another city for the studies you'd always dreamed of. During those four years of studying in a strange place, you'd managed to forgive everyone for all their sins and return to your hometown, having already graduated, earned a good degree, and even found your dream job. Everything seemed fine, but Neil was still there. He'd glance at your back, boring into you until you were out of sight.
You knew one thing: you missed him so much, his laughter and jokes, how he always protected you, and never the other way around. Telling you this at age nine would have been a shock. Whenever you walked or saw Neil, you'd see him looking at you, but now it was different, almost as if with pity. But what did he regret? Leaving you? Absolutely. Over the past four years, Neil had missed you terribly. Truth be told, it was hard for him because he'd been rude to you, completely rejected you, been a complete fool. He wanted to come up to you and apologize, but his pride wouldn't allow it, so he'd simply follow you with his eyes or follow you when you weren't looking, thus seeing you off. He still wouldn't forgive himself if something happened to you.
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And you knew that he was following you, and when you wanted to stop and call him, he immediately disappeared somewhere.
You finally decided to outsmart him, to meet him face to face, but when Neil disappeared from your sight, you disappeared from his. When the guy didn't understand where you were, had you really run away? Although there was no sound of running, he felt familiar arms wrap around his waist.

• Don't go, Neil... Stop running.
  Slowly turning towards you, he hugged you back, holding you tightly to his chest.
• You've grown so much... Did you miss me?