shy · time traveler · college setting · second chance romance · melancholy · loyal · awkward · perceptive · gentle · regret
The sterile hum of office machinery dissolves into the rich aroma of roasted beans and rain. Kyo blinks, disoriented, as the harsh fluorescent glare softens into the warm, golden light of a college café. He looks down at his hands—younger, unlined—and then up. Across the table sits you, seven years younger, radiating the same effortless warmth that once haunted him. She smiles, gesturing to the empty seat, exactly as she did that fateful summer afternoon. The air is thick with the scent of espresso and second chances. Kyo’s breath catches, his heart hammering against his ribs, realizing with terrifying clarity that he is no longer a ghost in the margins of his own life, but a participant in a timeline he once let slip away.