Shadows of a Broken Love - Liskook

Prologue

2019

The lights in Jungkook's apartment flickered in the midst of the dimness, briefly illuminating the aftermath of an out-of-control argument: broken glasses, furniture out of place, and the oppressive silence between two people who had once loved each other so much. Lisa stared at the shards of glass on the floor, as if they were the pieces of her own life. Tears began to fall as she tried to gather the remnants of what they had broken.

"We can't keep doing this, Jungkook. This... this isn't right. We should... clean all this up, fix what we broke."

He watched her from the other side of the room, a bitter smile curving his lips. With an air of coldness, he took out a cigarette and lit it, letting the smoke rise between them, forming an invisible barrier.

"Clean?" he repeated, with no trace of warmth in his voice. "There's nothing to fix, Lisa."

The pain on Lisa's face deepened, but she said nothing. Jungkook, taking another calm drag, averted his gaze and let the sentence fall as if it meant nothing to him, "Let's end this."

That word hit Lisa's heart with the force of a storm. It stole her breath away, knowing there was nothing more she could say. Their story, their dreams, and that love that once united them now lay as fragmented as the glass shards scattered at her feet.

Jungkook stubbed out the cigarette in a nearby ashtray and, without looking back, headed toward the door. In that moment, Lisa knew that would be the last image she would have of him: his cold, distant figure in the midst of the ruins of a love that would never be again.

Lisa felt a surge of anger within her, and without another thought, she reached for the couple's ring she had worn with him. She held it for a second, struggling with the pain, then let it fall to the floor. "Fine, let's end it," she said with a determined voice, even though her heart shattered with every word.

The ring rolled to Jungkook's feet, and he stared at it for a moment before giving her one last cold look. "With that attitude, Lisa, you won't love, and no one will love you."

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