ed for a split second before rejecting it. But today, that hesitation didn't even last. She pressed the red button without thinking, like a mechanical gesture. He had had a whole part of he

omises as if her life depended on it. But now, she realized that she had put her whole heart into something that, in the end, was only a mirage. It was easy to love someone when things were easy, when times were co

to return to this place that had marked the end of an era. She finally decided to come back home, to their old house. It was an impulsive decision, as if the air of this plac

was no trace of what had been there. The house had been redone, like an empty shell. The fresh paint, the plants on the doorstep, the well-kept drivew

When the door opened, he didn't just look at her, he stared at her, as if waiting for her to be the same as before. He seemed to have aged a little, just a little. But there were no tears in his eyes, no regrets. He

r? he finally asked, h

But there was nothing more. A heavy silence fell, and Lara felt smaller than ever. But she didn't move.

t my things, s

if the emptiness between them had taken up all the space. They h

ho with their history. She entered the room they had shared. Everything was in its place, nothing had chang

a memory that one did not want to forget. The photo of the two of them, taken during one of their first trips together. She remembered that moment as if it were yesterday. They were young, carefree, convinced that nothing could ever separate them. But looking more closely,

one who was supposed to be here. The idea of coming back to this house, of confronting him, of everything they had been, seemed absurd now. S

seemed to be observing her with an absent, almost pensive look. A look she had never seen in him before.

e back, he said finally, as

that she no longer wanted to turn this page. She had understood that he wouldn't come back, just as she would never come back. But she didn't have the strength t

, deep down, that she had made the right choice. She didn't need to go back to that house to know what sh