EPISODE 7 : WHAT WASN'T SAID
267 Words
The morning came quietly, wrapped in frost and pale sunlight.
Emmy walked toward the café, her boots pressing soft patterns into the snow. She hadn’t heard from Leo since the festival, and she told herself it didn’t matter. They hadn’t promised anything. Nothing had been defined.
Still, she noticed the silence.
As she reached the café window, she saw him.
Leo was inside, sitting at a table. Across from him sat a woman Emmy didn’t recognize. She was laughing, leaning forward like she belonged there-like she belonged in his world.
Emmy froze.
Something inside her tightened, sharp and sudden. She didn’t know why it affected her so deeply. They weren’t together. He didn’t owe her explanations.
But feelings didn’t care about logic.
She stepped back before he could see her, her heart beating faster than it should have. The warmth she’d been carrying for days flickered, replaced by something colder. Something uncertain.
Maybe she had imagined the connection. Maybe those moments had meant more to her than they had to him.
She walked away without going inside.
The snow kept falling, quiet and indifferent.
Later that evening, her phone buzzed.
Leo: Hey. I didn’t see you today.
She stared at the message, her thumb hovering over the screen.
So many responses formed in her mind. Questions. Distance. Pretending she hadn’t cared.
Instead, she locked the phone and set it down.
For the first time since she’d come back, Emmy realized second chances didn’t come without risk.
And sometimes, the hardest part wasn’t losing something real.
It was not knowing if it had ever been real at all.
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