PixelHeartedSims

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soft stories, messy pixels

What Lingers

a Sims story about the things people carry quietly, and how messy it can quickly get.

Chapter Blurbs

Chapter One: What We Tolerated

people tried. people waited. people stayed longer than they should have.

Where Healing Begins

Learning How to Measure

Quiet Between Attempts

Avoiding Truth

The Call He Ignored

She Let Him Leave

Open Secrecy

Distance Chosen

Not Who She Expected

Chapter Two: What We Carried

the aftermath. the weight of knowing. the things that don't disappear just because you want them to.

Borrowed Time

The Quiet After

Different Ways of Holding It

Chosen Effort

No Answer

After We Talked

What I Broke

Chapter Three: What We Do Differently

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The Work Continues

Therapy doesn't fix anything right away. It just gives the truth somewhere safe to land. We sit across from each other and listen without interrupting. I learn that progress doesn't look the same for everyone. Love, when done gently, asks for patience... not proof.

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Where We Go to Be Quiet

📍: San Myshuno Library

Some places don't ask anything of you. The library smells like paper and patience, we sit near each other without filling silence. No fixing. Just the soft relief of not being needed. I don't know her yet, but I already know why I'll be back here.

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A New Presence

📍: Skye Fitness

He moves through his routine without urgency steady, focused, unbothered by anything outside of it

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What We're Risking

We tell ourselves we're careful.

That it's only moments.. only stolen time.

But we don't slow down, we don't ask what happens next. Wanting something doesn't make it harmless, it just makes the fall quieter.

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What I Didn't Do

📍: Penthouse

Silence has a way of returning everything you avoid. I read the same page twice, I write things I don't like admitting. No one is asking me to explain myself. This isn't punishment. It's just what happens when you finally stop being distracted.

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Choosing Ease

📍: Pilates

I let my body decide what it needs. Breathe in. Movement. Familiar music.

I don't ask my thoughts to behave.. I just don't let them drive. Some days healing looks like journaling. Other days it looks like showing up anyway.

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After Everything

📍: Café

Mornings don't feel like waiting anymore. I get my coffee the same way everyday now. I write before the noise finds me. Healing didn't arrive loudly... it showed up as routine. And for the first time, that feels like enough.

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Mae Liu & Mochi

ꨄ︎ interlude between chapters

Mae Liu spends some quality time with her kitten Mochi 🎀

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Madeline & Leo's Date Night 💓

ꨄ︎ interlude between chapters

endlessly in love with you ♡

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What I Broke

📍: The Penthouse

Some apologies don’t reopen doors. They just make sure you don’t close the next one the same way.

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After We Talked

📍: Yumé's Townhouse

I didn't open the door because I wanted answers. I opened it because I already had them. He stood there like he was bracing for anger, I didn't give him that. I told him what I knew, I told him how I found out, I told him how it felt. He apologized but it didn't undo anything. Sometimes closure isn't a conversation that fixes things... sometimes it's just saying the truth out loud and choosing not to carry it anymore.

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No Answer

I told myself silence didn't mean anything. People get busy. Nights end. Feelings cool off. I checked my phone anyway. Once. Then again. Two names, no replies. It wasn't anger that unsettled me... it was the absence of it. Silence has a way of asking questions you can't avoid forever.

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Chosen Effort

📍: Sinclair Residence

To Madeline From Leo

My Love,

Thank you for agreeing to therapy. I know how hard that was. I know how much courage it took to sit in that room and say things you were never given space to say before.

I'm proud of you not because you're "fixing" anything, but because you're choosing yourself. And us.

I made reservations for Friday. I'd really love it if you wore this. Not because you have to but because I like the idea of you carrying something that reminds you how loved you are.

I'll see you later, take your time this morning.

Always yours.

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Different Ways of Holding It

We learned the same truth. We carried it differently.

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The Quiet After

📍: Delacroix Manor

The bathroom is warm, the kind of warmth that asks nothing of her. He's lit the small candles she likes, the ones that smell faintly of lavender and clean linen, and the bathwater murmurs softly as it settles.

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Borrowed Time

The office is quieter than it should be... after hours, lights dimmed, the city humming faintly through the windows.

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