he prayed the rain would stay away, but it arrived—soft, persistent, and sacred, like the moment he saw her in that red dress, eyes nervous, lips silent.
in a quiet library, beneath golden light and old books, she whispered, “I don’t want to go home yet,” and the world seemed to pause for breath.
she never turned back from the stairs—and in that small, aching silence, he knew: some beginnings are too beautiful to ever end.