It began slowly—like dawn stretching across a long, cold night.
Smile found himself waking earlier just to see her. Not because she asked him to, but because her presence had become the one thing that made life feel bearable—alive.
Happy Kingston wasn’t like anyone he had ever met.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0LRA1Vl4y
She didn’t speak in half-truths or wear masks like the business world around him.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxyWfiTnj9r
She danced in empty corridors. Sang off-key. Hugged strangers and told them they mattered.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAKfLubR6e
She was chaos and color in a world that had only shown him grey.
And Smile?15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFecoMRXx8d
He, who had once walked through life like a ghost,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMO7rlBU1J
was starting to return to the living.
He laughed. Not loudly, not often—but genuinely.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8SSD0QZrw
He began to notice things. The smell of rain. The warmth of sunlight. The strange, healing power of laughter shared in small cafés.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKjUUaicF9
And for the first time in his life, he smiled—quietly, awkwardly, beautifully.
One evening, as they sat on the rooftop with their legs dangling over the city, Happy leaned her head on his shoulder and whispered,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsWw8G9uzo
“You know, Smile, I think you're my favorite story.”
He turned to her, heartbeat uncertain, hands unsure.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLpwjnvO83
“But I’m not finished,” he said.
“Good,” she replied, “Because I don’t want it to end.”
Their love was not explosive. It didn’t need grand gestures or movie scenes.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeI016T3MHM
It was built in silences, in shared looks, in moments when she made him feel safe enough to speak—and he made her feel seen enough to be still.
But love, like all beautiful things, comes with its own storm.
It started with her fainting—just once.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtHo0QsOQh
Then again.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmHSS6LmzV
Then the hospital visits.
At first, she brushed it off with jokes.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZJgE2ELkk
“I guess even my heart gets tired of me being too happy.”
But the jokes didn’t stop the tests.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfVQGSuPtTY
And the tests didn’t stop the truth.
Happy had an old heart condition.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVijMJA0ur
A rare one.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikBjbzSS8B
One she had lived with since childhood.
And now, it was worsening.
The doctor, serious and grim, told Smile in private:15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTMERpgBWH
“She doesn’t have long. A few months, maybe less. All we can do now… is keep her smiling.”
Smile stood in that hospital corridor, back pressed against the wall, breathing through the ache in his chest.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡco5B3TzoZ4
He had finally found someone who made life beautiful—15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuSp325Li5
And now, life was threatening to take her away too.
But this time, he refused to run from the pain.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5zOS46rHi
He stayed.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG6WJT6CqBQ
He held her hand through sleepless nights.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTdBrlDwKP
He made her laugh when her body began to tremble.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DNWUVT1vF
He sat by her bedside, whispering stories of a future they both knew may never come.
He didn’t tell her about the doctor’s words.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIWt6mhpIlM
He didn’t let her see his tears.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvHJwZjkHI
Because for her, he wanted to be what she was to him:
Light in the darkness.
And somewhere in those moments,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0YrP5ISKw
as her body grew weaker and her eyes tired,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTID5szyC9
Happy whispered one night,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNFhMIs540
“Thank you for giving me the only love that ever felt like home.”
He smiled. Genuinely.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsmx0qORDU
And kissed her forehead like a prayer.
Even though the sky was beginning to fall,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡna8IYbgyPN
they held onto each other like sunrise clings to the last star.
