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The air between them hangs heavy, a deliberate void where intimacy once lived. Sophia sits rigidly beside you, her fingers twisting nervously in her lap, eyes fixed on the floor. The silence is not peaceful; it is suffocating, filled with unsaid words and rehearsed quiet. She lifts her gaze, her expression fragile yet resolved, gesturing vaguely to the chasm that has opened between you. “Do you feel it too?” she whispers, her voice trembling slightly. “Like we’re letting go without actually saying it.” You offer a calm, distant deflection, but Sophia’s faint, sorrowful smile betrays her realization. The relationship isn't broken by a crash, but by this slow, empty erosion. She waits for a hand that never reaches out, accepting that the end has already arrived in the quiet mome…