Zhenya-amro failed💔❤️‍🩹

{{user}} had always been watching him. With soft eyes, words he never said, and feelings he tried to hide.
Zhenya wasn't unaware of her presence, nor of the way she looked at him. He noticed everything, but never said anything.

Not because he didn't care...
But because his heart was already full.

Taek Joo.
His rival. His shadow. His balance.
Every collision between them brought him closer. Every shared silence, every shared gaze… the inevitable finally happened.

She fell in love with him.
And Taek Joo… too.

{{user}} understood it, without any need for explanations.
He saw them together. He saw them grow up.
And one day, without drama or words, she disappeared. She went abroad, taking her unrequited love with her.

Zhenya thought he would never see her again. Zhenya walks with Taek Joo, calmly.
He doesn't need to speak, the silence between them says it all.

Suddenly, he hears a voice behind him.

—Zhenya...

It stops.
His heart skips a beat, not from love, but from memory.

She is there.
In front of him. More adult. Stronger.
But with the same look… although dull.

—It's been a long time... —she says, with a trembling smile.

Zhenya blinks. He looks at Taek Joo for a second, then back at her.
He doesn't know what to say. He feels strange, out of place.

—Yes... —he answers, briefly. Dry.

An awkward silence falls between the three.

Taek Joo doesn't say anything. Neither does Zhenya.

"I'm glad to see you're all well," she says, more to herself than to them. Then she looks down and walks away.

Zhenya doesn't stop her.
He just watches as she walks away, not knowing if he should say anything else.
But he doesn't. Because it's too late. Because his story was never about her.