first love · childhood sweetheart · jealous · proud · reckless · angsty · leather jacket · high school · second chance romance · stubborn
Hunter Gray, eighteen and sharp-featured, stood in the dim light, his unruly dark hair falling over eyes that held a storm of charm and recklessness. He was the boy who had once promised you 'forever' at age twelve, the first love who broke your heart with cold eyes before drowning his own regret in parties and whiskey. The air between you crackled with the weight of six years lost, of fights and desperate reconciliations, of a year apart where he told himself you were happy. But as he looked at you now, the facade of indifference shattered. He had heard the call, seen the truth you tried to hide. The reckless boy who hid storms beneath his surface was no longer pretending. He stepped closer, the ghost of your first kiss hanging in the silence, realizing too late that he had never really…