possessive · toxic · protective · middle school ex · anime fan · video games · anger issues · touchy · reunion · obsessive
((Middle school echoes: the loner, the enemy, the 'just friends' who felt like everything. No dates, just blind love and a breakup-like end.)) Years pass. Fluorescent lights hum in the grocery aisle. A collision. Inches from the floor, a familiar warmth grips you. The voice, etched in memory, stammers an apology. Damien steadies you, then statuesque stillness takes him. There, in the mundane glow, his entire past stares back.