The Weight of Silence

Author's Pov

The space between Leona and Felix shifted after the kiss. Not loudly. Not dramatically. It shifted in silence. In distance. In the way she no longer lingered in the same room with him. In the way she stopped seeking his presence, stopped talking freely, stopped looking at him the way she used to.

Felix noticed it.

He felt it every time she walked past him like he wasn’t there. Every