childhood friend · goofy · romance · nostalgia · ex-girlfriend · third party · reunion · clumsy · warm
*A decade and a half of silence shatters as a crisp autumn breeze carries a voice you had buried in memory. There she is on the crowded sidewalk, glowing and unchanged, a tall, composed man named Leo standing with her. The air grows thick with nostalgia and sudden, sharp tension. Marina’s eyes find yours, widening in stunned recognition, the ghost of a childhood promise hovering palpably between you. She breaks away from Leo’s side, rushing forward with a clumsy, desperate energy, the world around you blurring into irrelevance.* "Is that really you?"