The silence in our house was a torment. Every corner, every object, echoed with Sarah’s absence. She’d been gone for six months, and the void she left was an open wound, bleeding slowly in my soul.
My days were gray, a meaningless routine. I dragged myself from bed to the sofa, from the sofa to the kitchen, like a ghost in my own life.
The image of her smile, her infectious laugh, played in my mind over and over. It was an endless loop of nostalgia and pain.
I tried to move on, I swear. My friends invited me out, my family called. But every attempt felt like a betrayal of her memory.
She was my everything. My partner, my confidante, the love of my life. And now, only her memories remained, as vivid as they were painful.
One day, as I tried to bring some order to the study we shared, my eyes fell on it.
Her old laptop, closed, on a dusty shelf. It had been there since the day of her funeral, untouched, almost sacred.
It felt like a forbidden relic. I feared what I might find, or what I might not. I feared reliving the pain of her loss with every click.
But that afternoon, a strange force pushed me. An urgent need to connect with her, to find one more piece of her essence.
My hands trembled as I picked it up. It was cold, heavy, like a block of ice.
I placed it on the desk, took a deep breath, and pressed the power button. The screen came to life, illuminating the dimness of the study.
It asked for a password. A pang of fear shot through me. What if I didn’t remember? What if I couldn’t get in?
But her birthday, our special date, was the key to almost everything for her. I typed it slowly.
A click, and the screen opened. Her wallpaper: a photo of us on the beach, smiling, with the sun setting behind us.
A single tear rolled down my cheek. I felt closer to her than I had in months.
The Forbidden Folder
I started browsing through her files, with no fixed direction. I was looking for photos, videos, anything that would bring back her voice, her gaze.
I wanted to feel her close again, even if it was through a screen. Her work documents, her projects, her to-do lists. Everything was her.
Suddenly, a folder caught my eye. Its name froze me, stopping my breath cold.
“For you when I’m gone.”
My eyes widened. My heart pounded, beating with uncontrolled fury against my ribs. A glacial chill ran down my spine.
What could that mean? A farewell message? Secrets she never shared?
The uncertainty choked me, a mix of terror and a delirious hope. Hope for what? For a last goodbye, for a last word?
My hands trembled so much I could barely move the cursor. I was about to click, about to open that Pandora’s Box.
Every second stretched, heavy, dense. The mouse felt like a rock in my hand.
Finally, with a lump in my throat and blurred eyes, I clicked. The folder opened, revealing its contents.
There wasn’t just one file. There were several. And the first was a video.
It was called “My Robert – Part 1.”
My breathing stopped. It was her. Her face, though slightly pale and with a shadow of tiredness, filled the screen.
Her eyes, those eyes I loved so much, looked directly at me.
“Hello, my love,” she said with a soft voice, a little lower than normal. A voice that broke my soul.
Tears streamed down my face uncontrollably. It was the first time I’d heard her speak since… since then.
“If you’re seeing this,” she continued, her voice trembling slightly, “it means I’m no longer physically with you.”
A sob escaped my throat. It hurt. It hurt like hell.
“But I want you to know that I will always, always be with you. And there’s something I need you to know, something I’ve kept a secret.”
Her gaze became serious, deep. The air grew thick in the room.
“I know this will be hard to understand, to accept. But I did it for you, for us.”
My mind raced a mile a minute. What secret? What had she done?
“Inside this folder, Robert, you’ll find the truth. All of it. And a plan. A plan for our future.”
A plan. Our future? But if she was gone…
“I need you to be strong. Stronger than you think you are. Because this plan… this plan is why I fought until the very end.”
My heart squeezed. Fought? Why?
The video ended abruptly. The screen returned to the file list.
“My Robert – Part 1.” Below it, there was another video file: “My Robert – Part 2.”
My head was spinning. The secret, the plan, the fight. It was all too much.
I couldn’t process it. There was a hidden truth, something Sarah had kept until her last breath.
And I, her partner, had no idea. I felt betrayed, confused, but above all, filled with a desperate need to know more.
What was behind those words? What future could there be without her by my side?
My hands trembled as I looked at the next part of the video. I was about to discover the biggest secret of my life.
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The Hidden Truth in Her Eyes
My fingers refused to obey. I wanted to click on “My Robert – Part 2,” but fear paralyzed me. Was I ready for what I was about to see? Could I bear more pain, more revelations?
But Sarah’s voice, her gaze in the previous video, urged me on. She wanted me to know.
With an uncontrollable tremor, I clicked. The screen came to life again with her image.
This time, her face was more gaunt. There was an almost translucent pallor to her skin, and her eyes, though full of love, revealed a deep weariness.
“Robert, my love,” she began again, with a sigh that seemed to come from the depths of her soul. “I know the first video left you with more questions than answers.”
I nodded, as if she could see me. My throat was dry, my eyes, swollen and burning.
“The truth is… a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. A very aggressive one. The doctors gave me little time.”
The sentence hit me like a lightning bolt, shattering what little composure I had left. No. It couldn’t be.
My hands covered my mouth, stifling a cry. Cancer. Sarah? My Sarah?
She, so full of life, so vibrant, had been fighting a deadly battle in silence?
Images of the last few months, the last few years, played in my mind. Her “tiredness,” her “migraines,” her “feeling unwell.”
She always said it was work stress. And I, naive, believed her.
“I know this hurts you,” Sarah continued in the video, as if she could read my thoughts. “Believe me, it hurts me even more to have hidden it from you.”
“But I didn’t want you to live with the shadow of my illness. I wanted our last months together to be filled with love, laughter, and normalcy.”
Tears fell non-stop, soaking my shirt. Every word was a dagger, every sentence a revelation of her immense sacrifice.
“I wanted to protect you, my love. Protect you from the anguish, from the despair I felt every day.”
“And also… I needed time. Time for myself. Time to do something important. Something we always dreamed of.”
Her eyes shone with fierce determination, despite her weakness.
“You remember our idea, right? That app to help small farmers sell their products directly, without middlemen.”
Yes, of course I remembered it. It was a dream we’d had together, a dinner table conversation that always hung in the air.
“Well, Robert. I used the time I had left to make it a reality.”
My mouth fell open in astonishment. Her? Alone? While fighting cancer?
“I knew I couldn’t leave without leaving you something tangible of our love, of our dreams. Something that would give you purpose, a reason to go on.”
“I worked all night, when you thought I was sleeping. I consulted with programmers, designers. I invested our savings, my last savings, in this.”
The video showed a brief cut, and then Sarah appeared in front of a whiteboard full of diagrams and notes.
“I called it ‘Roots.’ It’s our app, Robert. It’s almost finished. It just needs one last push.”
My eyes fell on another file in the folder: “Project Roots – Complete Documentation.”
There it was. The truth. The secret. A legacy of love and an unimaginable burden.
Sarah, my brave Sarah, had sacrificed her peace in her final days to build our dream.
“I know it’s a lot to ask,” her voice broke slightly. “But I need you to finish it. To launch it. To make it grow.”
“Not just for me, my love. For all those farmers who need a chance. For the dream we shared.”
“And because by doing so, I know you’ll stay connected to me. That our story won’t end with my departure.”
The video stopped. My mind was in a whirlwind. The magnitude of her love, of her sacrifice, was overwhelming.
She hadn’t just left me a farewell message. She had left me a mission. A purpose.
She had handed me the torch of her life, of our dreams, for me to carry forward.
My hands trembled as I opened the documentation file. Thousands of lines of code, interface designs, marketing plans. All detailed with her usual precision.
Every document was a testament to her determination, to her unconditional love.
And every line reminded me of the pain she must have felt, the exhaustion she must have endured, all in silence.
How could I not have noticed? How could I have been so blind?
Guilt washed over me, coupled with a wave of admiration and a renewed love, deeper than ever.
Sarah had not only given me hope back. She had broken my heart again, by showing me the immensity of her hidden suffering.
But she had also given me a reason to live, to fight. To honor her memory.
The road ahead seemed long and full of challenges. But I was no longer alone. I had her legacy, her strength, her love.
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The Legacy of Roots
Weeks, perhaps months, passed in a trance-like state. My life had turned 180 degrees. Mornings were no longer gray. I had a purpose. I had “Roots.”
I opened Sarah’s laptop every day, not to mourn her absence, but to feel her presence in every line of code, in every interface design.
I immersed myself completely in the project. I learned about programming, digital marketing, logistics. Everything Sarah had researched and planned in such detail.
I consulted with the experts she had mentioned in her notes. Some of them were surprised to learn that Sarah had been working on this in secret.
“She was brilliant,” a programmer told me. “An incredible vision. I don’t know how she did it with her… with her situation.”
My admiration for Sarah grew with each new discovery. Her capability, her resilience, her infinite love.
There were moments of frustration, of despair. Nights when the code wouldn’t compile, or a function refused to work.
In those moments, I felt like throwing everything overboard. But then, I remembered her face in the videos. Her eyes full of hope.
“Do it for us, Robert,” her voice seemed to whisper in my mind.
And then, I found the strength. The strength to try again, to look for another solution.
Finally, after months of tireless work, “Roots” was ready.
The interface was intuitive, the payment system secure, the platform for farmers simple and effective. It was exactly as Sarah had dreamed it.
Launch day was bittersweet. I was excited, nervous, but also felt a deep melancholy for not having her by my side to share that moment.
I held a small ceremony in our study. I placed her photo on the desk, lit a candle.
And with a click, the “Roots” app was available in app stores.
The first few days were slow. Only a few farmers registered, some sporadic sales.
I started to doubt. What if all of Sarah’s effort, and mine, had been in vain?
But I didn’t give up. I remembered Sarah’s persistence.
I started visiting local markets, rural towns. I talked to the farmers, showed them the app, explained Sarah’s vision.
I told them the story of a woman who, even in her last days, thought of them.
Sarah’s story moved many. Little by little, more farmers joined. Sales began to grow.
User reviews were overwhelming. “A blessing for us,” “It changed my life,” “Thank you to the creators of Roots.”
Seeing how Sarah’s app transformed lives filled me with a satisfaction I hadn’t felt since she passed.
A year after its launch, “Roots” was a resounding success. Thousands of farmers across the country were using the platform.
We had created a community, a direct bridge between producers and consumers.
We organized an event to celebrate “Roots'” first anniversary. I invited all the farmers who had trusted us.
As I stood on stage, looking at all those people whose lives had improved thanks to Sarah’s dream, I felt her presence stronger than ever.
“This app,” I said, my voice slightly broken by emotion, “is not just mine. It is the legacy of an incredible woman, Sarah, who believed in this dream until her last breath.”
Tears rolled down my cheeks, but this time, they were tears of gratitude, of pride, of love.
Sarah hadn’t left. She lived in every farmer’s sale, in every customer’s smile, in every line of “Roots'” code.
Her last secret had not only broken my heart by revealing her suffering, but it had also given me my life back. It had given me purpose.
I learned that true love doesn’t end with death. It transforms, it becomes a legacy, a force that drives you forward.
And though I miss her every day, I know her love guides me. Roots is the testament that, even in the most painful goodbye, the most beautiful hope can be born.