"Not Every Story Has a Happy Ending" - A Requiem for Love Lost in the Silence - "They met in a coffee shop, where love tasted like hope. They left as strangers, where hope tasted like ashes." Elara Faye Veyra and Kael Jarek Drakos began at Café Luna, a place where steam curled like promises and bitter coffee masked sweeter lies. She was a poet who wrote sonnets about forever; he was a musician who hid his scars behind guitar chords. For a moment, they were electric-two souls colliding in a symphony of whispered dreams and midnight laughter. But love, when built on unspoken fears and half-truths, becomes a house of cards. "Are you happy?" she'd ask. "Does it matter?" he'd reply. Their conversations dissolved into silence, their bed a chasm of cold sheets and colder hearts. "We didn't fight," she writes in a poem she'll never send. "We didn't try," he admits in a song he'll never release. - Elara aches for the man who once held her like a prayer. Now, she hugs his old hoodie, suffocated by the scent of what if. - Kael drowns in bourbon and crowds, but in the quiet, he hears her laugh. "Love doesn't always die in flames. Sometimes, it starves to death in the silence." - Themes : •Toxic love as a slow suffocation •Pride vs Regret Normal People's ache, Eternal Sunshine's regret, and loves that linger like scars. "Not all love stories deserve closure. Some just... end."