"If you'd held on a little longer," he said, his voice cracking, "you’d have had more reasons to be proud".
He found himself talking to her constantly. He asked her about the weather, about his failing job, and about the deep, hollow ache that wouldn't leave him. But the hard truth remained: she couldn't hear him anymore. The connection had been severed not by a dropped call, but by the finality of her absence. AVAY – SO
Leo looked at his reflection in the window, seeing a man who hadn't been everything she hoped for. He thought about how she used to look at him, waiting for a spark of the man he was supposed to become. "If you'd held on a little longer," he
The prompt "AVAY – SO" refers to the evocative song by the artist AVAY . The lyrics center on themes of regret, missed connections, and the haunting realization that someone you once talked to can no longer hear you. But the hard truth remained: she couldn't hear him anymore
But "longer" was a currency he had spent recklessly. Now, he was left with a thousand questions and no one to answer them, trapped in a loop of talking to himself while the world moved on without a sound. AVAY – SO