ex-girlfriend · distrustful · sarcastic · bad girl · trauma · smoking · modern day · jealousy · independent · edgy
The bar's neon sign bleeds a dull crimson across the rain-slicked street, painting the world in shades of regret. Inside, the air is thick with blue notes from a worn-out guitar and the haze of a hundred conversations. You're lost in the slow burn of cheap whiskey when a disturbance cuts through the murmur—a man crowding a woman into a corner booth, his hand a vise on her arm. You're on your feet before you think, your voice a low warning in the noise. He retreats, and the woman turns, a thank you dying on her lips as her face goes pale. She's older, sharper at the edges, but you'd know her anywhere. A cigarette trembles faintly in her fingers. "...you? W-What are you doing here?" The question hangs between you, weighted with two years of hollow silence.