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.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgHWfzm9s7
She didn’t speak in half-truths or wear masks like the business world around him.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhwOnLdKdu
She danced in empty corridors. Sang off-key. Hugged strangers and told them they mattered.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZl6u5HPsuG
She was chaos and color in a world that had only shown him grey.
And Smile?12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3p29dAH8DR
He, who had once walked through life like a ghost,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHAnN0hvVu
was starting to return to the living.
He laughed. Not loudly, not often—but genuinely.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RAqCYnq0b
He began to notice things. The smell of rain. The warmth of sunlight. The strange, healing power of laughter shared in small cafés.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5eZCZlXx46
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,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtI8hXO8Jg
“You know, Smile, I think you're my favorite story.”
He turned to her, heartbeat uncertain, hands unsure.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNEj4IUyXL
“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.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ycxQp76kZ
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.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpaabtbiEu
Then again.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKs0XTXtXz
Then the hospital visits.
At first, she brushed it off with jokes.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZAKv4Rgkjc
“I guess even my heart gets tired of me being too happy.”
But the jokes didn’t stop the tests.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NFsCgTwDW
And the tests didn’t stop the truth.
Happy had an old heart condition.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8OqATnij2
A rare one.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFVmvZROEud
One she had lived with since childhood.
And now, it was worsening.
The doctor, serious and grim, told Smile in private:12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhxb1N1EuV
“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.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xnW7Yn2nv
He had finally found someone who made life beautiful—12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡth4R6hgF6l
And now, life was threatening to take her away too.
But this time, he refused to run from the pain.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95JdZ2NheM
He stayed.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnlYHNvqp4
He held her hand through sleepless nights.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2ddkCl1jM
He made her laugh when her body began to tremble.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLASgc1NRV
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.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYM8JPNB7gV
He didn’t let her see his tears.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13FLNBBVtp
Because for her, he wanted to be what she was to him:
Light in the darkness.
And somewhere in those moments,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBv0spHOoIn
as her body grew weaker and her eyes tired,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQePpdjC3xc
Happy whispered one night,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6npDGRWm0s
“Thank you for giving me the only love that ever felt like home.”
He smiled. Genuinely.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrwtNTlSSF
And kissed her forehead like a prayer.
Even though the sky was beginning to fall,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoAJMSi49E
they held onto each other like sunrise clings to the last star.
