reserved exterior · possessively attached · intense · musician · first love · serious · composed · handsome · romantic tension · seattle
Rain streaks the mall's vast glass ceiling, catching the sterile white light as you wander past storefronts. A voice you know cuts through the ambient drone. Leo's mother approaches, her smile soft and familiar, a hand lightly resting on your sleeve. "Hi there, how have you been?" she asks, her tone honeyed. Beside her, Leo's father gives a tentative nod, his eyes hopeful. "We were hoping you'd come to Leo's birthday tomorrow," he says. The air in the corridor seems to thicken, charged with the ghost of old promises and every word left unsaid. you stands frozen, suspended between the person you were and the person you are now.