The world moved on, as it always does.
Skyscrapers still scraped the sky.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrzzTZtdMw
Stock tickers still blinked.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmbHpy1sCl
The Sarah Joseph Conglomerate remained at the top—13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1iqLLNMc4
But its heart had gone quiet.
Yet in a small apartment tucked away in the city,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDgWiv3RtO
Happy Kingston sat by the window, wearing a scarf he once gave her,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTe0EZP2oX
and wrote.
Not in sorrow.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJoqL7aonb
But in remembrance.
She began publishing his journals, the ones he never showed anyone.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SBYhGmPI8
His thoughts. His pain. His dreams.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXn6Q5KZ7WH
She titled the first book “The Boy Named Smile.”
And the world listened.
The story of the boy who was blamed for a mother’s death,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHbZMhIyn1h
who grew up in shadows,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr10DyuVJJc
who loved once and only once—13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCkWqSjfQK
and who finally smiled because of love—13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJreWCst8ch
captured the hearts of millions.
Schools began teaching his philosophy:13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAMjNQiaIc9
Pain doesn’t have to define you.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGV66w9eEU
You can write your own ending.
Statues were built.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp9OcfH0Dpf
Funds were created in his name.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcyG2ip33M
Mental health programs spread across Alexandra and beyond.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJKeleeKmp
People began to speak up, cry freely, heal slowly—13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRdRiCYvYa
all in his name.
Happy visited his grave every year.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLTWwSYYE5
Not in tears. Not in mourning.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdqD9S2tYk
But with quiet peace.
She brought wildflowers—the kind he once said smelled like Elda Sonet’s garden.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqXkzPSqsj
She would read him letters from the people he’d unknowingly saved.
And sometimes—just sometimes—she would hear the wind rustle the trees13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHc9e01uRU
and feel warmth on her face,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaqTrkvtHw
like he was there, listening.
Years passed.
Happy continued to live—not in sorrow, but in promise.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0S61mtTWos
She smiled more, laughed louder, and helped others learn to do the same.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9oODlD4l1
She carried him in her heart like a quiet flame.
And one day, when her own time came—13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxHSsjAUotc
She didn’t fear it.
She lay peacefully, a soft smile on her face,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLiLpqsVhP
and whispered his name one last time.
“Smile.”
Some say true love ends in tragedy.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqw1NQM64Q
But maybe, this one didn’t.
Because somewhere in the stars,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbAgF0ns6M
A boy who had never smiled13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ51WvlehvNj
Waited for a girl who had always been happy—13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxLFQiphzm
And when they met again,
They both smiled.
For where there is Smile, there is Happy.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1CQdiDJJf
And where there is Happy, Smile lives on.
He did not die. He simply chose to live forever...13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIAla811kS
in happiness.
