What Remains Of Us

Some love stories are written in stars.
Some are written in blood.

Las Vegas.

One reckless night.
Two strangers.
A chance encounter that should have meant nothing.

But some meetings are written long before they happen.

What begins as a game slowly becomes something neither of them can escape.

Glances become secrets.
Secrets become promises.
Promises become a love so consuming that the world around them begins to disappear.

Until one night-

everything they believed in comes crashing down.

A death.

A betrayal.

A lie buried beneath another lie.

And two hearts forced to become strangers when all they ever wanted was each other.

Years pass.

The world changes.

So do they.

But some memories refuse to die.

A familiar face in a passing car.

A song that hurts too much to hear.

A scent that brings back an entire lifetime.

A photograph hidden where nobody will ever find it.

And a name that neither of them has said aloud in years.

Then fate brings them face-to-face again.

No explanations.

No forgiveness.

Only two strangers standing across a room with ten years of unfinished love between them.

She doesn't know the truth.

He knows more than he can tell her.

And somewhere in the shadows, the people who tore them apart are still watching.

Because what if their story was never destroyed by fate?

What if someone wanted them apart?

What if the people they trusted were never truly on their side?

And what happens when the two people who once loved each other enough to destroy themselves finally decide to uncover the truth?

They may have lost ten years.

They may have lost everything.

But they haven't lost each other.

Not yet.

Some loves end.
Some loves survive.
And some were never meant to be finished.

- Written by Lovemanyata 🥀