I Like You I Love Her

<p><strong>Severin</strong><br><br>It feels like I've been in love with Bryan Winthrop my entire life. <br>Before he kissed me in front of the entire school. <br>As he danced with <em>her</em> the night of our senior prom.<br>After his younger brother Ben made me smile through my tears.<br><br><em>It'll never work with him. He will never leave her...</em><br><br>It's been more than ten years since I let myself fall <br>for the boy whose heart wasn't mine. <br>And the Prom King's lips are finally mine to kiss.<br><br><em>When I came back here I wasn't expecting to see you <br>and when I did I felt this tumble...</em><br><br>But he's still keeping me in the shadows.<br>As his younger brother breaks me open in the day.<br><br><br><strong>Ben</strong><br><br>You shouldn't covet whom your brother desires.<br>Our pastor father would say he taught me better than that.<br>But I knew over ten years ago my brother didn't deserve her.<br>And nothing's changed since she came back into both our lives.<br><br><em>You think what you felt for my brother back then was love <br>but what I felt can't be the same?</em><br><br>I'm still the one who makes her laugh-<br>the one who challenges her.<br>And he's still the one treating her like a dirty little secret.<br><br><em>You really are a watercolor Severin Thompson. I can read you...</em><br><br>You shouldn't covet whom your brother desires.<br>This summer I'll remind him of that.</p><p> </p>