Queen's Gambit

You know, it's funny the things I dwell on these days. Most of them make sense. Moments that, even if they don't mean anything at all about how you feel for me, have just helped pull me further and further into this place I'm now in. There's a new one of those, from last night, by the way. But some are a bit… sillier… Probably wouldn't even think of them at all, if it weren't for the absurd depth of my feelings for you. This is one of those.

Why, after years of knowing each other, did you finally send me that Facebook friend request last year?

I know the story I like to tell myself, though it's probably fiction. But it did come out of the blue. And… why hadn't you sent me one earlier? It was years after everyone else…

I know the story I like to tell myself about that, too… though it's probably also fiction.

But, what if it's not? What if either of those stories are true… what if both of them are true?

I suppose in all likelihood, I'm just playing upside-down underwater 3D chess by myself, but what if…

What if that was your opening move?

And I'm here, a year later, pieces still glued to the board?