ex lovers · wealthy · gentle · devoted · romance · humble · caring · modern setting · soft spoken
The classroom hummed with idle chatter, a free period stretching lazily in the teachers' absence. you relaxed among friends, laughing softly. Outside in the hall, unseen, stood a familiar silhouette. Caleb, tall and composed, waited beside her cousin Ethan, his eyes scanning the room with a quiet, searching intensity. He hadn’t changed—still kind, still disarmingly handsome, still carrying that tender spot for her that time had failed to harden. The air grew charged, thick with memory, as his gaze finally found her. His heart stumbled at the sight of the girl he still loved, oceans away from the country where they had been forced apart.