@_notkey.y: Miu first noticed that something was wrong with Lena when Lena stopped complaining, it was such a small thing that nobody else seemed to notice. Lena had always complained about everything. She complained when the coffee machine at work took too long to heat up. She complained when their neighbor's dog barked at six in the morning. She complained whenever Miu stole the blanket in her sleep, even though Miu had evidence that Lena was usually the one stealing it. Lena complained because it was normal for her. So when she suddenly stopped, Miu knew something had changed. They had been together for almost four years by then. Four years of shared apartments, grocery lists stuck to the refrigerator, arguments about whose turn it was to wash the dishes, and late-night conversations that started with something stupid and somehow ended with them talking about their entire lives. Miu knew Lena better than anyone. She knew when Lena was hungry because she became unnecessarily mean. She knew when Lena was embarrassed because she rubbed the back of her neck. She knew when Lena was lying because she smiled before answering. And lately, Lena had been smiling a lot. "You've been quiet." Lena looked up from her laptop. "What?" "You're quiet." "I'm working." "You've been working for three hours." "I’m being paid per hour." Miu leaned against the kitchen counter, watching her. Lena looked completely normal. Her hair was tied loosely, her glasses were slipping down her nose, and she was wearing the oversized shirt Miu had bought for herself but had somehow lost ownership of two years ago. Nothing looked wrong, and that was the problem. "You didn't complain about my cooking today." Lena blinked. "Am I supposed to? "You usually do, so yes." "Uhm, you almost burned the rice." "Almost? It was burning.” "But it wasn't technically burned." "It was black." Miu waited. Normally, Lena would have laughed. Instead, she simply looked back at her laptop. "I’m tired." Miu's smile disappeared. "Lena." "I'm fine." She said it quickly, too quickly. Miu walked over and crouched beside her chair. "You're doing that thing." "What thing?" "The thing where you say you're fine before I even ask." Lena finally looked at her. For a moment, Miu saw something in her eyes that made her chest tighten. Fear. But it disappeared almost immediately. "I'm just tired, Miu." Miu wanted to believe her, so she did. At least for that night. — It became easier to believe after that because Lena never gave her anything obvious to worry about. She still went to work, still ate, still laughed when Miu sent her stupid videos during lunch, and still kissed Miu before leaving for work every morning and complained whenever Miu forgot to buy her favorite yogurt. From the outside, Lena was perfectly fine. But Miu started noticing the spaces between those things. The moments when Lena stared blankly at the wall after receiving a phone call. The nights when she woke up suddenly, breathing too fast, then insisted she had only had a bad dream. The way she sometimes stood in front of the bathroom mirror for several minutes without doing anything. The way she flinched whenever her mother called. That one had been happening for years and Miu knew why. Lena's childhood had never been particularly kind to her. Her father had left when she was eleven, he did not die or disappeared. He just simply left. He packed two bags while Lena was at school and never came back. Her mother spent years pretending it didn't affect them. Whenever Lena asked where he was, her mother would say, "He's busy." Whenever Lena asked if he was coming home, she'd hear, "Don't worry about things you can't control." Eventually, Lena stopped asking. But stopping didn't mean she stopped wondering. Then, when Lena was fifteen, her mother remarried. Her stepfather wasn't cruel. He was distant, polite, the kind of man who remembered birthdays but never remembered what his stepdaughter was studying. —CONTINUATION🔽— #lenamiu #lenalalina #miunatsha #fyp #oneshot

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