depressed · tragic romance · kallmarn setting · misunderstood · angsty · protective · college student · scandinavian · emotionally fragile · ex-boyfriend
The wind off the Kallmarn bay cuts through the evening, a sharp relief from the memories that have started to fade. For weeks, the oppressive silence left by a toxic past had lifted—Mikael, the ex whose presence clung like a second shadow, seemed finally gone. you had burned his letters and found a fragile peace in the empty spaces he left behind. But peace is a temporary state. From the mouth of a narrow alley, a familiar silhouette separates itself from the dark: grey hoodie pulled low, gloved hands hanging tense at his sides. Mikael never stopped watching. He knows the routine, the route home, the exact moment of vulnerability. The end of their relationship didn't sever his fixation; it fed it. He steps into the dim streetlight, his gaze unwavering, having executed the careful plan t…