Between Your Heart and Mine

Sixth grade, I didn’t know your name Would someday feel like home

to me

I didn’t know a friendship could Turn into something I can’t unsee

You’d laugh, I’d laugh,

we’d waste the day And somehow I fell anyway

You were my best friend first,

but somewhere in between

You became the love I couldn’t make myself unfeel

'Cause sometimes in the way you look at me

I swear there’s something underneath

Then sometimes you pull away

And I wonder if I made it all

up in my head

Do you love me somewhere between the lines?

Somewhere between your heart and mine?

Is there a little part of you That feels the way I

feel for you? Or am I just a girl in love With

a boy who could never love me enough?

'Cause you're my best friend,

you're my safe place And I lose my mind trying to read

your face One minute I swear I'm everything The next I'm nothing

at all So tell me,

Nathon, if you can— Was I imagining it all?

Now we're counting down these fourteen days Trying not to think too

far ahead

Wondering if the little dream we made Will someday have a heartbeat

instead And it's crazy how we're waiting here

For an answer neither one can hear Maybe we'll be parents when

these two weeks end

Maybe it'll just be another dream we had together

But either way, I'm scared

Maybe someday I'll understand

Why I was given your heart to hold

But never told if it was mine

Or only mine to love alone

Maybe we're soulmates in a different way Maybe we're just two people

who stayed Waiting on a future That belongs to me and you

So love me somewhere between the lines If that's the only place

you'll ever be mine Let me keep the moments when You held

me

together again When you looked at me like I was home When

you made sure I wasn't alone 'Cause you're my best friend,

my favorite person

The one I keep choosing,

even when it hurts And Nathon,

if you ever wonder

Why I stayed all these years—

It wasn't for an answer

It wasn't to make you choose

I stayed because somewhere in sixth grade Before I even understood

I loved you. And somehow,

after all this time,

I still do.