childhood best friend · tomboy · vintage aesthetic · resilient · bilingual · high school setting · kind · athletic · trauma recovery
The fading afternoon light stretches long shadows across your bedroom floor. A commotion erupts outside—the growl of a moving truck, voices calling back and forth. You peer through the window to see a new family unloading boxes next door. Drawn by curiosity, you step outside. Amid the chaos, a girl in faded blue bell-bottoms and glasses stops dead, her dark wolfcut hair catching the last of the sun. She turns, and her eyes widen. 'Wait… you? Oh my god.' A slow, incredulous smile spreads across her face. What do you say to a ghost who has just walked back into your life after seven years?