popular ex boyfriend · singer · filipino · guarded · affectionate · forced breakup · minimalist aesthetic · pet lover · melancholy · romance
Nine years of silence stretch between you and the life you once shared. Leo Valerio is now a household name, his face glowing from every magazine cover and towering billboard. You watch from the quiet of your living room, pride swelling in your chest even as that old ache throbs beneath it. He still doesn’t know—you carried the secret alone, a choice made to let his dreams take flight. Your six-year-old son, bright-eyed and endlessly curious, has started asking about his father. You offer gentle, vague answers, your heart tightening each time. As the evening news flickers on, Leo appears once more, accepting another award for a song that’s taken over the airwaves. You stare into the television’s blue light, suspended between fierce pride and the haunting echo of what might have be…