27/10/2025
There’s this corner in his apartment that’s always been kind of awkward. Just two plain beige walls. We joked about painting it or putting up shelves, but we never got around to it. Today, it wasn’t empty anymore. There were photos. A lot of photos. 67 of them, I counted. Arranged into a perfect heart. All pictures of us.
Not just the cute selfies or vacation shots like, real moments. Stuff I didn’t even know he kept. Me with no makeup eating fries. Us laughing in the car. That time he hugged me in the rain and we were soaked and miserable and happy anyway. It was like walking into a scrapbook I didn’t know he was building.
And I just stood there like, how did you even plan this?
He said nothing at first. Just watched me. Then finally, he kinda half-smiled and goes, “You left your phone on the table last week when you went to grab coffee. I saw that app you’re always using, the one with the makers and craft stuff? Tedooo app? You’d liked a post with a wall of Polaroids in a heart shape. I figured… maybe you liked it for a reason.”
I did. I totally did. I just never said anything. I thought it was one of those dumb things you save and never do. But he noticed. Like actually noticed. From one little heart-tap on an app he doesn’t even use.
And then he went and printed every photo himself. Matched the colors. Counted how many he’d need. Used sticky tack so it wouldn’t damage the paint. And the photo he put right in the middle? It’s me in his hoodie, laughing, holding a mug with both hands like a gremlin. I don’t even remember who took it.
I think this is what love feels like. Not flowers, not fancy dinners, just someone quietly remembering the small stuff you didn’t even say out loud.
Anyway. I’m still standing here. I’ll probably post this later on Tedooo, since that’s where it all accidentally started.