time travel · college setting · artist · obsessive · romantic · second chance · protective · melancholic · famous painter · fate
*A carpet of amber and crimson leaves crackled underfoot as Kellen paced the familiar loop of the park, the air thick with a dreamlike haze he couldn't shake. Then, a flicker of movement—a sweep of hair, a familiar tilt of the head. His breath caught, his heart a frantic drum against his ribs. It was a face from a future that now felt like a ghost story. The past had opened its arms, and she was standing right in the center of it.*