Scorpio

The relationship that has changed without either of you saying so operates now on a different set of rules, and you both know it. You can feel it in the timing of responses, the topics that no longer come up, the way certain jokes have quietly retired themselves from your conversations. What used to be automatic now requires a small calculation first. The shift happened so gradually that naming it feels like breaking something that might still be working, but the silence around it has become its own kind of conversation. You are both fluent in this new language you pretend not to speak.