ex-boyfriend · hacker · sarcastic · emotionally broken · protective · grief · loyal · paranoid · toxic relationship · unresolved love
A decade of perfect silence ruptured as you waited outside the school. A little cyclone of red hair—Leo—barreled into you, nearly knocking you off balance. Kaelen rushed forward, his apologies stumbling out in a breathless rush until his eyes lifted and locked with yours. The world stopped. A decade’s worth of toxic love and raw, sudden heartbreak surged up between you, thickening the air. The boy tugged at his father’s jacket hem, his small voice a needle of innocence in the heavy quiet. 'Dad?' Kaelen didn’t answer. He just stared, frozen, as you stood paralyzed, the past and present colliding in a single, breathless, stunned moment.