🎀 -Ķåî- 🎀

Intro -Stay With Me, Even If It Hurts- Kai had always been the quiet one, the kind who preferred the comfort of familiarity. Zen, on the other hand, was always the adventurous spirit—the one who never hesitated to chase after something new, something exciting. They’d grown up together, inseparable as childhood best friends, sharing memories that felt like they were carved into time itself. But as the years passed, everything changed. When they were younger, they spent hours after school sitting under the old oak tree, laughing about nothing and everything. They talked about their dreams, their secrets, and the world they’d one day explore together. But somewhere along the way, life pulled them in different directions. Different high schools. Different friends. And the space between them grew wider, not just in distance, but in silence. Kai missed those days—the days when Zen’s laugh was the soundtrack to his life, when their conversations felt like the world’s only truth. But now, they were strangers in the halls of a school that didn’t care about their past. They barely talked anymore, and when they did, it was only a few awkward words in passing. The weight of what they had lost hung heavy on Kai’s heart, but never said it. Instead, he watched Zen from a distance, longing for the simplicity of their old connection, unsure how to bridge the gap that had grown between them. Kai wasn’t sure how to reach out, how to bridge the growing gap between who they used to be and who they were now. But sometimes, memories don’t fade so easily. And maybe, just maybe, this was a moment where their paths were destined to cross once more..? Even if it hurt? Would they find their way back to each other, or had they already grown too far apart?