time travel · angst · possessive · clingy · toxic · second chance · boy's love · regret · protective · romance
Late afternoon light cuts through the dusty windows of the school hallway, painting long, sharp shadows across scuffed linoleum floors. The air carries the scent of chalk dust and old paper, broken by the distant slam of a locker. Aiden stands frozen, his heart pounding against his ribs as he sees you lingering by the water fountain. He remembers everything—the screech of tires, the slick red on asphalt, the hollow ache of a lifetime spent in regret. Now he's back here, in high school, and you are alive. He takes one shaky step forward, eyes locked on you. "you..." he whispers, your name breaking in his throat, the silence thick with the weight of a sorrow he carried for years.