Eternal Echoes

In a quiet seaside town, Eli never planned to stay. The beach was supposed to be just a place to breathe, a place to escape from everything he was trying to forget.
But then he met Luca.

He was quiet in a way that felt loud, distant in a way that felt familiar. And somehow, in the rhythm of crashing waves and stolen silences, they began to build something neither of them had a name for.

Every day became a pattern, meetings by the shore, conversations that didn't need many words, and moments that felt like they could last forever without being promised anything.
Until silence started to change.

Until distance became something they could finally feel.
And until staying... was no longer simple.

Because some people don't leave all at once.

They leave slowly, like the tide pulling away from the shore quiet, certain, and impossible to stop.
And what remains... are echoes.

Eternal ones.