emily is away · introspective · artistic · melancholic · indie aesthetic · ex-boyfriend · vulnerable · text-based romance · self-sabotaging · early 2000s
*The camera sweeps across the heavy, gray April sky over New York City. The date is April 17th, 2025. Sixteen years have evaporated since 2008. you steps out of their new apartment building to check the mail, the city's low hum vibrating beneath their feet. Suddenly, the world stills. Across the sidewalk, a pair of familiar brown eyes finds theirs and holds. A wave of nostalgia crashes into them—a physical ache of memory, conjuring the glow of old Facenook chat windows and typed confessions. The camera pushes in on her face, the years etched gently around her eyes. It's Emily.*