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Chapter 7 - Chapter 7: Where Silence Grows

There came a time when the rhythm of their days quietly changed. He was leaving for a while. Not forever. Just enough to feel the space.

It didn't feel like goodbye. Not really. It felt like a pause in a melody they both knew by heart.

At first, everything felt the same. Familiar check-ins. Soft updates. But soon, the words came slower, and the silence began to fill in the spaces where warmth used to be.

She waited, not with anger, just with quiet hope. Hope that he would come through the quiet and speak again. He tried in his own ways. Small gestures that never quite reached her hands.

She found herself wandering the same paths they once walked together. Her words still spilled into the air, but now there was no quiet listener beside her. The silence that once felt comforting now echoed a little too loud.

Sometimes she would sit at their usual bench, fingers brushing the worn wood as if his presence still lingered there. And maybe it did, in the way memory wraps around places, making them sacred without asking.

She missed him. Not just his presence but the version of herself that came alive when he was around. She didn't cry. There were no tears. Just a weight in her chest that rose and fell with every quiet breath.

In her heart, she kept a space for him. Not with expectation, but with gentleness. A knowing that sometimes, love pauses. Sometimes it hides. And sometimes it simply takes the long way back.

There were reasons, just not the kind that came with explanations.

Not a fight, not a fall, just a slow, tender unraveling like pages that no longer turn.

Between them, a stillness settled. It wasn't distance or blame. Just a gentle undoing.

Like a breeze taking the edge off a once blazing summer.

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