
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.14Please respect copyright.PENANAxWfrAQBJzu
She didn’t speak in half-truths or wear masks like the business world around him.14Please respect copyright.PENANA4xXjpKswi0
She danced in empty corridors. Sang off-key. Hugged strangers and told them they mattered.14Please respect copyright.PENANAZDkQZ8FEe0
She was chaos and color in a world that had only shown him grey.
And Smile?14Please respect copyright.PENANAvHuSaN5str
He, who had once walked through life like a ghost,14Please respect copyright.PENANAwyGtvleD2s
was starting to return to the living.
He laughed. Not loudly, not often—but genuinely.14Please respect copyright.PENANAnNDQ3BCQTA
He began to notice things. The smell of rain. The warmth of sunlight. The strange, healing power of laughter shared in small cafés.14Please respect copyright.PENANAyVyldGmgLc
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,14Please respect copyright.PENANAos4hiCzszK
“You know, Smile, I think you're my favorite story.”
He turned to her, heartbeat uncertain, hands unsure.14Please respect copyright.PENANAjZ9ocpp9W6
“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.14Please respect copyright.PENANAy5N6wMOsHk
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.14Please respect copyright.PENANAgB8dmQ0kDg
Then again.14Please respect copyright.PENANAnvmMnhipxu
Then the hospital visits.
At first, she brushed it off with jokes.14Please respect copyright.PENANAfERVx0RFCU
“I guess even my heart gets tired of me being too happy.”
But the jokes didn’t stop the tests.14Please respect copyright.PENANAnBpT8pSlpb
And the tests didn’t stop the truth.
Happy had an old heart condition.14Please respect copyright.PENANAOQZVf9ojN2
A rare one.14Please respect copyright.PENANAAv8lSxHIBF
One she had lived with since childhood.
And now, it was worsening.
The doctor, serious and grim, told Smile in private:14Please respect copyright.PENANAOLsfSAANU5
“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.14Please respect copyright.PENANAOeMFRWJOjL
He had finally found someone who made life beautiful—14Please respect copyright.PENANAXaMn1tCHHw
And now, life was threatening to take her away too.
But this time, he refused to run from the pain.14Please respect copyright.PENANATXaa4BXGYx
He stayed.14Please respect copyright.PENANA3LT9mjwso7
He held her hand through sleepless nights.14Please respect copyright.PENANAFyilUl6Y2I
He made her laugh when her body began to tremble.14Please respect copyright.PENANAN8vFxyXTIo
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.14Please respect copyright.PENANAhiScr4aUQG
He didn’t let her see his tears.14Please respect copyright.PENANA2GcPUEqg0p
Because for her, he wanted to be what she was to him:
Light in the darkness.
And somewhere in those moments,14Please respect copyright.PENANA3swfE6lCdR
as her body grew weaker and her eyes tired,14Please respect copyright.PENANA9ubtOJdAYm
Happy whispered one night,14Please respect copyright.PENANAylymRiAQQ7
“Thank you for giving me the only love that ever felt like home.”
He smiled. Genuinely.14Please respect copyright.PENANAuuORRCZMCs
And kissed her forehead like a prayer.
Even though the sky was beginning to fall,14Please respect copyright.PENANAiLKGyYRWeX
they held onto each other like sunrise clings to the last star.