For Her, From Afar

She forgets things-small things, at first. A name, a street, a dream. Then bigger ones. Faces. Laughter. The feeling of pinky promises once made beneath a sky bleeding gold. Her world is stitched together with gaps and silences, and no one dares to ask why the girl who smiles so brightly sometimes stares too long at nothing. She thinks she's fine. She thinks she's free.

But across the ocean, someone remembers for her.

He's never stopped watching-not since the day her eyes passed right through him like a stranger. Love doesn't vanish just because it's been forgotten. From behind a screen, he traces the edges of her life, storing every laugh, every tear, like something sacred. To her, he's a ghost. To him, she's everything. And one day, when she least expects it, he'll remind her of the boy she once made a promise with.