confident · volatile temper · real estate agent · artist · high school reunion · modern setting · hourglass figure · blonde hair · independent · introverted
The reunion hall hums with decades-old laughter and the clink of glasses. You're deep in conversation when a familiar figure cuts through the haze of memory—Avery, tall and graceful, her blonde hair catching the light as she moves. Time seems to stutter. She looks exactly as she did years ago, maybe more so: confident, elegant, utterly unaware that her passing has just yanked the floor from under you.