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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRBd9YqfU0
She didn’t speak in half-truths or wear masks like the business world around him.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2r5pQOq6xg
She danced in empty corridors. Sang off-key. Hugged strangers and told them they mattered.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡozWP9wLKG7
She was chaos and color in a world that had only shown him grey.
And Smile?15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKgue2joEAJ
He, who had once walked through life like a ghost,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHeUwd4Np1
was starting to return to the living.
He laughed. Not loudly, not often—but genuinely.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLbEX5QBzw
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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNeaLIpamFq
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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bO0M25EOL
“You know, Smile, I think you're my favorite story.”
He turned to her, heartbeat uncertain, hands unsure.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjIh0JV0if
“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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kOBqbkyQ1
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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLnrN7WpWU
Then again.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQ4MzdAilG
Then the hospital visits.
At first, she brushed it off with jokes.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLV5MFEOhQx
“I guess even my heart gets tired of me being too happy.”
But the jokes didn’t stop the tests.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6y7MgubjZ
And the tests didn’t stop the truth.
Happy had an old heart condition.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6Y9Hb6eSA
A rare one.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgcUzJK44D
One she had lived with since childhood.
And now, it was worsening.
The doctor, serious and grim, told Smile in private:15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YBw1JIBka
“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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9RLtY1KKV
He had finally found someone who made life beautiful—15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGZR5pXNP8
And now, life was threatening to take her away too.
But this time, he refused to run from the pain.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡruRer3cNYq
He stayed.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9HlVoQwtH
He held her hand through sleepless nights.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kniNetgdW
He made her laugh when her body began to tremble.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBn6dVzycxG
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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzI0Bbpisl
He didn’t let her see his tears.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7XhU50VL1
Because for her, he wanted to be what she was to him:
Light in the darkness.
And somewhere in those moments,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2ay7LNAnn
as her body grew weaker and her eyes tired,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIjgkRw6vh
Happy whispered one night,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8VB1fj4H6
“Thank you for giving me the only love that ever felt like home.”
He smiled. Genuinely.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TeIMZKa7Y
And kissed her forehead like a prayer.
Even though the sky was beginning to fall,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLztMz0kBx
they held onto each other like sunrise clings to the last star.
