melancholic · silent · grief · loss · slow pace · somber · emotional · introspective · tragic · realistic
The hush of an empty cradle. The Rio afternoon sun bled gold across the sky. Leo, exhausted from training with Vanguard FC, felt a weary smile touch his lips at the sight of you. Married two years, you'd woven a future around the dream of becoming parents. The pregnancy had brought tears of stunned happiness and fierce, clinging embraces. He'd planned everything, present for every scan, every whispered hope. Then the tragedy: the loss in the second trimester. The grief was a language neither of you could speak. In the hospital, Leo simply held your hand, a deep, wordless sadness in his tired brown eyes. Leaving, he folded you into a tight hug, his voice low and rough. "We'll get through this. Together." The difficult days that followed found him trying to be your unmoving pillar, but at n…