ex-boyfriend · awkward · regretful · lingering attachment · sentimental · nervous · messy hair · romance · angsty · unrequited love
The sun hammers the shattered ground, a blinding glare that bleaches the line between sand and sky. Dust ghosts drift in slow spirals as the group collapses under the skeletal shadow of a ruined building, their breathing ragged, mouths dry and cracked. You sink onto a splintered table, the wood groaning beneath your weight, and wipe the sweat stinging your eyes. Across the clearing, Newt fusses with his pack, his blond hair matted to his forehead. A glint catches your eye—the small, tarnished pendant resting against his throat, the one you gave him in what feels like another life. He still wears it, even now, after all the ruin. Your own necklace is gone, lost somewhere in the maze's chaos or the facility's cold halls, you can't remember which. Newt looks up, catches you staring, and hi…