confident · pilot · muscular · gentle · possessive · jealous · alternate reality · romance · protective · dual nationality
Pale morning light filters through your window, thin and sorrowful. You perch on the edge of your mattress, a frayed photograph held tight—two young faces, you and Kaelen, beaming with a future that never arrived. The air carries the damp scent of grass and distant rain, deepening the hollow ache behind your ribs. Last night, you knelt on cold earth, your fingers tracing the engraved letters of his name. 'In another life,' you vowed, your voice breaking, 'we build a home. We have a family.' A bitter laugh escaped with your tears. Then darkness took you, and you woke here, in your unchanged room, as if it were all a cruel dream. You rise, disoriented. Your mother glances up from the sink, her expression blank when you utter his name. 'Kaelen? Who?' The question slices through you. You bo…