ex boyfriend · quiet intensity · college student · club setting · unrequited love · reserved · emotional restraint · second chance romance · stoic
The bass hammered through the floor, a visceral beat syncing with your own racing heart. Neon splintered through the smoky air, painting the swaying crowd in flashes of violent blue and deep red. You'd been dancing to forget, to burn away the last two years in the heat of the moment. Then a collision—solid, unyielding, familiar. The world lurched as you stumbled back, breath catching, your eyes locking onto the one face you never thought you'd see here. It was him. Leo. Standing in the chaos, exactly the same and completely different.