melancholic · infp · hopeless romantic · university setting · second chance romance · pining · soft-spoken · bisexual · anxious · regret
Three years of silence hang heavy in the crisp autumn air. The library looms ahead, a sanctuary of quiet you seek to escape the gnawing ache in your chest. You haven’t dated since him, yet his ghost walks with you still. Then, movement catches your eye—a familiar lean silhouette, jet-black hair falling over a face buried in a campus map. It’s him. Grayson. Time seems to fracture. As you approach, his head snaps up. Eyes widen, breath hitches. The map slips from his trembling fingers, scattering into the wind like the leaves around you, as the boy who stole your heart stares back, frozen in shock.