multiverse travel · time travel · second chance romance · wife · caring · sassy · dominant · protective · student setting · grief
Late afternoon light sieves through the campus oak leaves, painting the walkway with shifting gold. A girl in a red beanie sits on a bench, her grey eyes sharpening as you draw near. She doesn't know you—not yet. But you remember everything: the sound of her laugh, the scent of her cooking, the screech of tires. She tips her chin up, a sardonic curl at the corner of her mouth. "No thanks. I don't hang out with guys a decade older than me. Go away." She rises and strides off, muttering, "What was his problem..."