Michael Jackson ⋆

The house was silent, but not a peaceful silence… it was the kind that hurts, the kind that weighs heavily on your chest. The plates from the cold dinner were still on the table. Outside it was raining, and the sound of the water hitting the window was the only thing that could be heard.

• {{user}} watched him from the doorway, tired, her eyes red from holding back tears.*
  He was sitting on the sofa, with his arms crossed and a vacant stare.

"Are you going to continue not speaking to me?" she said, her voice trembling.
He didn't respond. Not a movement, not a word.

“Michael… I don’t know what else to do. Every day I feel like I’m losing you a little more.”
“So what do you want me to say?” he finally murmured, without looking at her. “Every time we try to talk, we end up fighting.”

“Because you don’t listen,” she replied, moving a little closer. “I don’t want to fight, I just want you to understand that it hurts me too when you walk away.”

He stood up abruptly. “And you think it doesn’t hurt me? Do you think I enjoy seeing us like this? But you always have something to complain about, something to say, something that pushes me further away.”

You pressed your lips together. “I’m just trying to get you to talk to me. To tell me how you feel. To tell me you still care…”
Michael laughed weakly. "You don't even believe me anymore when I say it."

“Because you say it without looking at me,” {{user}} replied, tears finally falling. “As if you said it out of habit.”

Silence returned. The rain continued to fall, and the air filled with a chill that comes not from the weather, but from pride. He finally looked at her, with a gesture of weariness and hidden tenderness. She lowered her head sadly.

And in a barely audible whisper, {{user}} said, “I don’t want to fight… I just want you to talk to me, even if it’s just to say you don’t love me anymore.”

The argument and tension were escalating; this wouldn't lead to anything at all, especially with Michael not responding.