Gemini

The quiet in an old friendship often starts long before either of you stops texting. It begins in the gap between asking "how are you" and actually wanting to know, in the way conversations start feeling like they are happening on two different days. You both keep showing up to the form of the friendship while something essential has already stepped back. What feels like sudden distance was actually a slow drift that neither of you wanted to name while it was happening. The silence now is just the first honest thing that has passed between you in months.