Taurus

The absence of an apology becomes its own daily routine after enough time passes. You stop expecting it and start organizing your days around the gap where it should have been. What began as waiting turns into a different kind of relationship with the person who owes it to you, one where you know exactly which topics to avoid and which silences mean what. The shape of your conversations becomes so practiced that neither of you remembers it was originally temporary. By now the missing apology has done more work than the apology itself ever could have done, teaching you both how much can be managed without ever saying the hard thing out loud.