After losing my dad, everything felt different.The house felt different.Life felt different.Even I felt different.I spent months trying to convince myself I was okay. Maybe that's why I didn't notice how bad things had gotten until I found myself crying on the living room floor one afternoon with no idea why.Then I downloaded a game.It was supposed to be a distraction. Just something to help me survive the long break from school and stop thinking for a while.Instead, it became an entirely new world.A world filled with people I had never met, friendships I never expected, drama I never asked for, and memories I would never forget.And then there was him.He wasn't the kind of person you notice immediately. If anything, he was the kind of person most people misunderstood. But beneath all of that was someone carrying more pain than he ever admitted.Maybe that's why I stayed.Maybe that's why I listened.Maybe that's why I slowly made it my responsibility to make sure he was okay.What I didn't know was that somewhere between trying to save him and trying to save myself, I was falling in love.The game that was supposed to help me escape reality became the very thing that changed it.And sometimes I wonder if downloading it was the best decisionI ever made.Or the worst.