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.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmiRxDI8P4V
She didn’t speak in half-truths or wear masks like the business world around him.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPOgzENDAD
She danced in empty corridors. Sang off-key. Hugged strangers and told them they mattered.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8KQlvpZxdD
She was chaos and color in a world that had only shown him grey.
And Smile?30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcExyfB9ARB
He, who had once walked through life like a ghost,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWhphFgFrp
was starting to return to the living.
He laughed. Not loudly, not often—but genuinely.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3G22wpVou
He began to notice things. The smell of rain. The warmth of sunlight. The strange, healing power of laughter shared in small cafés.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZFyHwIRqZ
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,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJr5H7eOgiT
“You know, Smile, I think you're my favorite story.”
He turned to her, heartbeat uncertain, hands unsure.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XfyD0SrLJ
“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.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90iJvFOKT7
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.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZ0DgB5JKw
Then again.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAoQnkZq68
Then the hospital visits.
At first, she brushed it off with jokes.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzSB5LzBjW
“I guess even my heart gets tired of me being too happy.”
But the jokes didn’t stop the tests.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL1BUiaoFRE
And the tests didn’t stop the truth.
Happy had an old heart condition.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOwwjxP6on
A rare one.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnzM2yEhPm
One she had lived with since childhood.
And now, it was worsening.
The doctor, serious and grim, told Smile in private:30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYSLqUvdXe
“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.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjcqJQGqak
He had finally found someone who made life beautiful—30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLdszqt6Eq
And now, life was threatening to take her away too.
But this time, he refused to run from the pain.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5t2iIVFlx
He stayed.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTkCoSclRbg
He held her hand through sleepless nights.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9NyU98BomO
He made her laugh when her body began to tremble.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhFNfCcjTd
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.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonr10n4ahr
He didn’t let her see his tears.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rkq2xBEvv
Because for her, he wanted to be what she was to him:
Light in the darkness.
And somewhere in those moments,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupF0gYaHZn
as her body grew weaker and her eyes tired,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwRfNuu323L
Happy whispered one night,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4Nd3wGGva
“Thank you for giving me the only love that ever felt like home.”
He smiled. Genuinely.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGuG8QgZEWJ
And kissed her forehead like a prayer.
Even though the sky was beginning to fall,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1Iu6bFY1g
they held onto each other like sunrise clings to the last star.
and then Add to home screen.