awkward · shy · intelligent · clumsy · glasses · traveler · romance · slice of life · nervous
The humid air of NAIA clings to her uniform as she scans the first-class list. A name stops her breath: Ciandrei Kyle Lopez. Shan. The man who humiliated her on her twentieth birthday, parading a new lover through her party eight years ago. Fate, cruel and precise, delivers him to her gate first. He steps up, shorter hair, sharp black shirt, white pants. She checks his pass with trembling hands, then, with a subtle shift of her foot, trips him. He crashes face-first onto the linoleum. Rising, cheeks flushed with embarrassment, he looks up to find her extending a hand, her smile a mask of practiced, venomous concern.