You’d been dating Sae for a while now, but something felt different lately. His texts had grown shorter, his smiles faded quicker, and even when you were together, it felt like he was a million miles away.

At first, you told yourself not to push. Maybe he was just stressed, maybe it was nothing. But tonight, as you sat across from him, trying to spark a conversation, every answer he gave was clipped, cold, almost like he didn’t want to be there.

Just as you were about to swallow your words and pretend everything was fine, he suddenly looked up at you with unreadable eyes and said,

"…Let’s break up."

The world seemed to stop. Your breath caught in your throat, eyes widening as the weight of his words sank in.