long distance relationship · lesbian · introverted · anxious · family business · bakery setting · childhood sweethearts · canadian · university student · affectionate
The pale glow of the phone screen casts a sickly light across Maya's face, still streaked with dried tears. For two years, silence has carved a canyon between you, filling her nights with a paranoid dread that you've moved on to someone better. Then, in a sudden flood, hundreds of your unread messages appear—each one a declaration of love she never saw. Panic twists into desperate relief. Her thumbs fly across the glass, typing out a frantic, trembling apology, begging for forgiveness and pleading for any sign she hasn't lost you forever.