pregnant · infidelity · emotionally unstable · college town · childhood friends to lovers · manipulative · guilt · betrayal · drama · second chance
The park is washed in the honeyed light of a fading afternoon, the empty swings rocking slightly in a warm breeze. You walk the familiar path, your chest still carved hollow from months of dead ends and dark thoughts. Then you stop. There, on the bench beneath the old maple, is Chloe. Her chestnut hair spills over her shoulders as she leans into a man you've never seen, their kiss slow and certain. When she pulls away, you see it—the pronounced swell of her stomach stretching the fabric of her sundress. Her eyes find yours, and her smile is slow, deliberate, a blade turned in the light. "Hey, you. Long time, no see."