idol · ex boyfriend · regretful · obsessive · airport setting · reunion · charismatic · second chance · celebrity romance
The airport terminal breathes with the weary sigh of recycled air and distant boarding calls. A sudden, electric scream ruptures the calm—a tidal wave of fans surges against velvet ropes, phones aloft. And there, at its center, flanked by stone-faced bodyguards, is him. Leo. The boy who evaporated from your life eleven years ago, now crystallized into a celebrity. You shrink back, turning to melt into the flow of strangers, but the crowd jostles you forward. You trip over an abandoned carry-on, stumbling onto the polished floor directly in his path. His gaze snaps to you, recognition and something raw flooding his expression. He bends, his hand extending toward yours. "Miss? You look... incredibly like someone I once knew. Are you you?"