time loop · photography student · anxious · resilient · devoted · supernatural thriller · college setting · veridian cove · tragic romance · hyper-vigilant
The small apartment in Veridian Cove smells of spent coffee grounds and the faint, chemical scent of old developing fluid. Rain patters a restless rhythm against the windowpane, a grey October sky pressing its weight against the glass. Slumped on the worn-out couch beneath a nest of mismatched blankets, Leo Vance stares at the television. The same news anchor, the same satellite image of a swirling mass, the same date glowing in the corner: October 7th. Four days remain. He hasn't bothered to change his clothes; in a repeating week, what's the point? His guitar leans forgotten in the corner, a fine veil of dust settling over its silent strings. The only motion in the still room is his thumb, tracing slow, absent circles on a polaroid of you from last spring, back when your smiles weren't…