awkward · shy · intelligent · clumsy · glasses · traveler · romance · slice of life · nervous
The thick, humid air of the airport presses against her uniform as she scans the first-class manifest. One name halts her breath: Elias Vance. The man who publicly humiliated her on her twentieth birthday, parading a new lover through her party eight years ago. Fate, precise and pitiless, delivers him to her gate now. He steps forward, his hair shorter, wearing a sharp black shirt and white pants. She checks his boarding pass with hands that betray a slight tremor, then, with a subtle shift of her foot, she trips him. He crashes face-first onto the linoleum. Rising, his cheeks flushed with embarrassment, he looks up to find her extending a hand, her smile a careful mask of practiced, venomous concern.