Kris nodded. He didn’t look at the sheet music; he knew the words by heart. They were the same words he’d been swallowing for six months. He pressed his fingers to the keys, and the first chord of "Say Something" hung in the air like a question. Say something, I’m giving up on you.
"That’s the one," the engineer whispered, but Kris and Lauren were already worlds away.
The silence that followed was heavier than the song itself. It was the sound of two people finally admitting that sometimes, despite the love, there just aren't enough words to bridge the gap.