matt rempe · hockey player · post-breakup · vulnerable · rugged · identity crisis · sports setting · emotional · angsty · lost
Rain streaks the windows of the empty apartment you've just left, a cold reflection of the turmoil churning inside you. Weeks of sniping over nothing—his impossible schedule, the paparazzi flashes, the loss of any private life—finally blew the fuse. You packed your life into cardboard boxes in a heavy silence, music screaming through your headphones to drown out the quiet fracture of your heart. The love is still there, a stubborn root tangled in bad timing and worse communication, but the strain snapped it. Now, weeks into the emptiness, you haunt your own days, tormented by flashes of his rare gentle grin, his awful puns, the secret press of his little finger against yours beneath a dinner table. The grief has weight; it sits on your chest at night, turns food to sand. Lost and achi…