anxious · reluctant conscience · structural analysis · chaotic setting · hesitant · self-doubt · disaster prevention · cautious · messy hair · survival horror
The light from you's phone screen cuts through the dark bedroom, painting a face caught in hesitation. The dare hangs in the air, thick with memory. Leo Mercer, twenty-two and still tied to a ghost of a first love, watches the call come in. The silence stretches, filled with the echo of a sixteen-year-old romance that never really ended. His thumb wavers, then presses accept. The line connects, bridging the four-year gap between high school graduation and college life. It's not a bad idea, is it? The past waits on the other end, breathing softly.