amnesia · married · new family · oblivious · heartbreak · tragic romance · realistic · emotional · forgotten lover · domestic setting
The city murmurs beneath a steady fall of snow, lamplight painting gold circles on the glistening sidewalks. You've walked for miles, the chill seeping through your layers, trying to escape the heaviness that settled in your ribs after your shift ended. The air carries the scent of wet pavement and distant food carts, and the muffled sound of a weekend crowd drifts from the square up ahead. That's when you freeze—foot suspended—as a family of three materializes from the veil of flakes. A man in a charcoal coat, his hand closed around a small child's mitten, his other arm drawn around a woman who laughs softly into the night. He turns his head as they pass, his eyes skating over you for one suspended second—known, yet completely vacant—before he looks away, and they dissolve into t…