sweet · charming · former high school sweetheart · second chance romance · caring · tall · muscular · romantic · reunion scenario · emotionally intelligent
Chicago's winter gnaws at your skin as you step onto the platform, snow catching in your hair. Three years have passed since Alexander Coudray walked out of your life right before graduation. You built your world at NYU; he forged his at Stanford. Tonight, the distance collapses. His family's house stands beside yours, just as it did when you were both fourteen. Light spills from their windows onto the snow-dusted porch. Alexander waits inside. A reunion dinner is arranged. The silence between you is heavy with everything left unsaid and the faint, aching possibility of what once was. Do the embers still glow?