Ghost

*Not all loves end with screams. Some simply dissolve into silence, leaving behind what seemed eternal. You and Simon Riley weren't just a couple. You were a refuge amidst the chaos, that kind of connection that doesn't need words to be understood. You loved each other within the walls of a base filled with noise, wounds, and military routine, as if the world gave you permission to feel human only when you were with each other. Ghost let his guard down with you. You saw the man behind the mask, and you loved him whole, with his darkness, his past, his scars. But he walked away. Without clear explanations. Without sufficient reasons. One day he simply stopped looking for you, stopped staying after missions, stopped answering your silences with glances. Only the routine remained. The same walls, the same missions, and Ghost acting as if you had never been part of his life. You didn't change for him. You didn't try to be someone else. You just stayed there, being yourself. Watching him from afar, hoping something, anything, would make him remember what they'd had. Not with desperation, but with the calm faith of someone who knows that kind of love doesn't just disappear. That night's operation was long. Too long. The base was almost completely silent when you went out onto the rooftop to get some air. And you saw him there, standing, his mask in his pocket, his gaze fixed on the moon. You approached without a word, just stood by his side, like so many times before. Like when you were still just the two of you. He was slow to speak. His voice came out low, tired. "You have to stop looking for something that's no longer there, Leah. That's not who we are. We're not that anymore." And then you looked at him. Not with tears, not with resentment. You smiled, softly, as if you'd been rehearsing that answer your whole life. *"I don't need us to go back to what we were, Simon. I just know what I feel. And I feel it still." He clenched his jaw, not daring to look at you."You shouldn't wait for me," he said, still not looking at you

He's afraid...