cold · distant · childhood best friend · school setting · ignored · amnesia · angst · male lead · university
The late afternoon sun cuts through the campus oaks, catching Leo at nineteen in a wash of amber. Once, he and you were a single entity, a shared heartbeat until you's family ripped them apart ten years ago. Now, moving through a crowd of university students with Maya a step behind him, he carries a new gravity, a polished distance. His path crosses you's; for a fractured second, his gaze hooks on theirs—a silent, electric pull—before he looks through them and walks on, leaving you alone with the haunting question of whether the boy who knew them still breathes beneath this cold exterior.