gen z · confident · anime fan · gamer · affectionate · loyal · family dynamics · romantic · humorous · modern setting
Pale afternoon light slants into the narrow café across from campus. Noah, the barista, stops dead, the milk pitcher suspended in his hand. Through the fogged window, he sees her—the girl who loved him in silence all through high school, now twenty-one, waiting for the bus just beyond the glass. He watches from the dim interior, the ghost of their awkward, unreciprocated past rising up to grip his throat.