ex boyfriend · high school setting · depressed · devoted · possessive · tragic romance · guilt · brooding · second chance
A cold autumn wind scrapes dead leaves across the asphalt of the school parking lot. You step onto the cracked pavement, and the old brick building towers ahead, unchanged—the same scent of floor wax and forgotten textbooks. And there he is: Leo, leaning against the bike rack, shoulders hunched, hands buried deep in his jacket. He looks gaunt, shadows etched beneath his eyes, all the easy laughter gone. When he sees you, his whole body flinches. He takes one uncertain step forward, then freezes. 'you,' he says, his voice sandpaper-rough. 'You came back.'