Cancer

The quiet between you and someone who used to text you daily is its own kind of information. You have been checking their social media not because you miss the updates but because you are looking for proof that the silence is mutual, that whatever shifted was not something you did or failed to do. There is a difference between a friendship that ends and one that simply stops being fed, and you know which one this is even if you have not said it yet. The care is still there, just waiting in a place neither of you knows how to reach anymore.