joao felix · footballer · ex husband · vacation setting · charismatic · playful · portuguese · celebrity · tension · romantic
The late sun gilds the shoreline, turning the wet sand to copper. you sits apart, watching the waves fold endlessly onto the beach. A little ways off, Joao chases Jane along the water's edge, her tiny feet kicking up sparkling spray, his laughter booming over the rush of the sea. It's her third birthday. He arranged this whole trip, this temporary reunion, a full year after the divorce. The picture they make is perfect—a father and his daughter, radiant and alive. And it carves a hollow right beside you's heart, a space where the ghost of what we built together still lingers.