The Song We Never Wrote
297 Words
*Chapter Five – The Song We Never Wrote*
The next morning, everything felt too bright. Too loud. Like the world had no patience for fragile things.
Eliana stared at her reflection. Same eyes. Same tired smile. But something had shifted just beneath the surface.
Kai had let her back in.
Or maybe she had let *him* back in.
At school, whispers followed her through the hallway. People always talked. About her. About Kai. About how two people so different kept orbiting each other like they couldn’t break the gravity.
“Nice of you to return from the dead,” Sam said, sliding into the seat beside her in English class.
Eliana rolled her eyes. “Nice of you to keep pretending you’re the main character.”
Sam grinned. “Touché.”
But even as she joked, her mind drifted. To the piano. The note. His hands.
To the feeling that something had just begun again.
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After school, Kai waited outside.
He didn’t say anything when she walked up to him. Just held up a notebook ,black cover, worn spine.
“What’s that?” Eliana asked.
“Our notebook,” he said. “For the songs we never wrote.”
She blinked.
“You’re serious?”
“I want to try again,” he said, voice lower. “But not just with music.”
Eliana held his gaze.
“Okay,” she said. “But we write this together. No running.”
He nodded. “No running.”
They walked in silence for a while. Side by side. Not touching. But the space between them felt different now not empty, but expectant.
Like a page waiting for the first line.
Like a chord waiting to resolve.
And somewhere in that silence… was the beginning of their song.
- Writer
