He'll do the first move, he always does. Although at times it took him longer, but he will. He'll teach you patience. Then he'll talk through the phone as if he's holding your hands. He helps you go through things but unintentionally. He just does. He'll tell you about his first love and how he wanted to marry her but there were so many things in between them. He'll teach you certain things can still be in the way of love. You'll soon understand what he talked about wasn't true love but in time, he'll teach you that too. He keeps you up at night. You'll want to. You're willing to lose 100 days of sleep just to make sure he gets the rest he needs. Then he'll tell you about his trip to the ocean and how it made him realize things. You won't get to see his eyes sparkle as he talks but that'll be fine for you as long as he is talking to you. You'll start telling your friends about him. Not much, just enough for your friends not to fall in love with him. He'll start talking to one of them and emotions start come to you like tidal waves but it's okay because you'll start being you and my god don't you just hate when you be you. He'll occasionally forget to text back and you'll usually just pull your hair out thinking what you did wrong. He'll come back, don't worry. Then you'll start doing that thing you do to the people you love. It hurts but you have to. You just couldn't bear getting hurt again. This never happens but he'll chase you. He'll chase you like no have ever did. He'll tell you you're important to him and you'll believe him. but deep down you didn't. At that point you'll start thinking about the times you stayed up talking to him. You'll think about every laughter you had with him and that time he sang to you through the phone, you'll start thinking about it. And a year later you couldn't handle it anymore and decided to do it. You told him. You were angry and you did it. He'll tell you the same thing but his just faded. And this is how you'll leave him.