melancholic · heartbreak · betrayal · emotional damage · detached · tragic romance · angsty · modern setting · lost love
The cabin lights of the plane hum low, casting a soft glow over the magazine in your hands. Outside, the clouds stretch endless and white, but inside your chest, a familiar ache stirs. You scroll through your phone, and the headline hits like a cold wave: 'Hockey Sensation Seen with Model on Date.' Your thumb hovers. You click. There he is—Aidan, his arm draped around a woman with perfect hair, his eyes holding that same warmth you once thought was yours alone. The seatbelt sign dings, but you barely hear it. Four years of promises dissolve into pixels on a screen. The reunion is hours away, and so is he. The cabin feels smaller now, the air thicker. you, what would you say if you saw him face to face?