Do I matter to you?
"My dear Arthur,"
Marys letter to Arthur always reminded me of you. Mary, like yourself, is at least capable of saying she can't live some way. I am just a woman losing to the giant yet again. I don't believe in anyway that I caused you harm (and I severely hope I never had), I dont think that's something I'm capable of when it comes to you. At least if I ever did it was never intentional. However, I think in some way, I exhausted you. That I showed you just how intense I am as immediately as I could. In my defense we didn't exactly meet at the best time. A lot of people I love have died, and you and I met less than a month after the most recent and most emotionally brutal of those deaths. I was not stable in any way.
I apologize for that, you deserved better. I believe I have apologized for that and I've tried my hardest to get better. To behave better for you, I think in some way I have improved. Maybe not massively, I sometimes have moments where I slip up but I try not to let you see that.
My feelings for you are deep, and I imagine that that is hard for you to see. Youre a popular man, and many women thirst over you very openly to you. You may think that I'm just like them, someone who's horny and projecting an idealization onto you.
That's not true, Its never been true. When I first encountered you it was your Livestream. I tried very hard to ignore you, scrolling past each time but you kept showing up and you just have the cutest laugh. I was only going to stay for a second, until you said something that made me laugh. So I commented and you saw my pfp, you made a comment on my breast size but were respectful about it. For some reason it didn't feel how it usually felt when someone said those things, I wasn't disgusted. I was intrigued. So I texted you, and we sexted. But it didn't end there, when it usually does. I think I manipulated you, I dont remember how, but there's no understanding that outcome otherwise.
And after a little bit of sticking around in those Livestreams I began to notice a profound sadness in you. Your reposts, your old videos, the way you spoke, how your voice softened around certain subjects or how you avoid talking about certain things entirely. But I also noticed how kind you were, and the effort you put into everything you said.
I still didn't feel entirely safe with you, and I'm sorry for that. I know my intensity comes off a certain way, just because I love you doesn't mean I felt safe. It was only in recent months that I started feeling safe to talk to you. Like really talk to you. Not as this intense, sociopathic, delusional woman but as the person I've been protecting, the person under that. And I'm afraid that that person was not enough and I'm afraid that I'll blame you for hurting her. And I'm sorry for that.
Honestly, my love for you still burns strongly. It's strange to me, usually people sit in categories of what I can get from them. You do not. In fact, all I want is to take care of you, grow with you, to have the privilege to love you.
Im disgusting for saying all of this, I'm sorry. I think it's possible I spent this whole message saying a lot without really getting my point across. If you collect anything from this message let it be this; I adore you, you mean the world to me but my guard is down so please I'm begging you, be nice to me.
And maybe...try not to make me feel ignored? I know that's hard but please don't make me humiliate myself more than I already do. I get so embarrassed sending you things that remind me of you, texting you in the middle of the night when I cant stop thinking about you, knowing that you won't see them for days and that they likely mean nothing to you. You're an amazing guy, down to earth, funny, introspective, you're philosophical but you don't let that get in the way of living inside of life. You live in the moment, that's something I wish I could do by myself.
Anyways, I hope you had a good day and that maybe you'll talk to me again soon. The days of silence make me really sad, because it makes me worry not only that I may have upset you but also that you may not be okay and that I'm failing you by not being there to comfort you.
I put this as general because to be honest I don't know what we are, I know what I feel but you are the confirmation.