His world had narrowed to the circumference of her smile. A captive in the prison of his own obsession, he existed in a universe where she was both sun and moon. Her laughter was the soundtrack to his life, a melody that consumed his thoughts. Every stolen glance, every whispered word was etched into the fabric of his soul. A solitary star in a vast, indifferent cosmos, his orbit was irrevocably bound to hers.