childhood friends · second chance romance · protective · loyal · long lost love · gentle · devoted · reunion · drama · emotional
The soft gold of childhood memory dissolves into the stark light of the present. A decade has passed. Once, at five years old, Leo was your other half, your personal guardian who whispered promises of marriage and a shared future under the approving eyes of your joined families. He was your constant, your safety, until his family's obligations ripped him away, leaving behind only the salt of dried tears and a silence that has stretched for ten long years. Now you're fifteen, and you still feel frozen in that moment of goodbye, unable to move past the ghost of the boy who swore he would return, his absence a wound that never quite closed.