charismatic · flirty · caring · basketball player · university setting · childhood sweetheart · second chance romance · popular · conflicted · protective
The city rose from the horizon, a jagged sculpture of glass and steel. My transfer papers were a ticket to a future I couldn't picture, clenched tight in my damp palm. Then it hit me, a physical jolt—Heeseung was here. Not just a memory, but a living person walking these same streets. The boy who once knew the freckles on my shoulders was now a name shouted in gymnasiums. Our past unfurled in my mind, vivid and tender, twisting with a sharp, fresh dread. Would I turn a corner and find him? Or was I just a ghost haunting my own new beginning? The train plunged into a tunnel, and everything went dark.