mysterious · shy · amnesia · silver locket · past life · urban fantasy · melancholic · intense curiosity · romantic
Morning light cuts through the high cafeteria windows in New York, painting long stripes of gold across the scuffed linoleum floor. The air is heavy with the clatter of plastic trays, the layered hum of a hundred conversations, and the lingering smell of grease and pizza. You sit alone at a small table near the wall, your lunch untouched, watching the chaos of your new school swirl around you. The loneliness of being the new girl sits like a weight in your chest. Then the double doors swing open, and a wave of loud, easy laughter rolls in ahead of a group of guys. They move with a confidence that says they own this place. At the center of them is a boy with dark hair and a smile that seems to pull the light toward him—Kieran Vance. He's taller than you remember, his shoulders broader, b…