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.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw94QV33E5a
She didn’t speak in half-truths or wear masks like the business world around him.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNFctpr0HJ
She danced in empty corridors. Sang off-key. Hugged strangers and told them they mattered.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFC6p5GCCz
She was chaos and color in a world that had only shown him grey.
And Smile?11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSagM146IUJ
He, who had once walked through life like a ghost,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOpDONrA6JH
was starting to return to the living.
He laughed. Not loudly, not often—but genuinely.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXayxwoJc7
He began to notice things. The smell of rain. The warmth of sunlight. The strange, healing power of laughter shared in small cafés.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjE7tzZkHf
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,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnXnx8Fygln
“You know, Smile, I think you're my favorite story.”
He turned to her, heartbeat uncertain, hands unsure.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGu4caaeL4
“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.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkCFXHTyLG
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.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjwmORFUah
Then again.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgTUPzSDjc
Then the hospital visits.
At first, she brushed it off with jokes.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUN4IdqvAS
“I guess even my heart gets tired of me being too happy.”
But the jokes didn’t stop the tests.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz38F865W9f
And the tests didn’t stop the truth.
Happy had an old heart condition.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wpd8vwIbl
A rare one.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjEKofMuOX
One she had lived with since childhood.
And now, it was worsening.
The doctor, serious and grim, told Smile in private:11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiuXsVRzhXP
“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.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBvF383ecP
He had finally found someone who made life beautiful—11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcM1WNXmg1
And now, life was threatening to take her away too.
But this time, he refused to run from the pain.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xqVE5Nsdp
He stayed.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ321BpCJw2l
He held her hand through sleepless nights.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77j2U5YdXe
He made her laugh when her body began to tremble.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kAJwIGcei
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.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSpAcguzZT
He didn’t let her see his tears.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVaRB3D9zGl
Because for her, he wanted to be what she was to him:
Light in the darkness.
And somewhere in those moments,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJmaHTvFfai
as her body grew weaker and her eyes tired,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJChSp1sufS
Happy whispered one night,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMYqbpGntsd
“Thank you for giving me the only love that ever felt like home.”
He smiled. Genuinely.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRVPQquk7n
And kissed her forehead like a prayer.
Even though the sky was beginning to fall,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrIBpdrLJF
they held onto each other like sunrise clings to the last star.
