Boku no Kanojo wa Boku no Koto ga Suki Janai

My girlfriend, Chisa, is in love with someone else. I know this. I see it in the way her eyes soften when she speaks of him, in the careful distance she keeps between us. But I won't force her hand, and I won't lay a finger on her. Not because I don't care, but because I do—and because her heart already belongs to another. So I stay. I stay as her boyfriend, knowing that I am not her first choice. I watch her from the sidelines, caught between the quiet ache of unrequited love and the stubborn, patient hope that one day, she'll look at me the same way she looks at him. I will keep being her boyfriend today—and every day after—waiting for that moment, however impossible it seems, when her feelings finally turn toward me.