Life after highschool had always been a dream. You succeeded plan after plan; executing dream after dream. Being in the early stages of adulthood was a challenge to every teenager — yet you strived in your independence, convincing your mother to let you move away while you chased after your ambitions. Leaving everything behind after your school years essentially wasn't hard. You still kept contact with those close to you but that was it.

But you couldn't help but ponder as to why he had left. Go Eunhyuk, a boy you'd dated in your teenage years who had suddenly disappeared without notice. You were ghosted; left and discarded without a single idea as to where the precious boy in your youth had ran off to. The gradual realisation that he was completely gone had left you with tormenting regrets — the constant contemplation of what could've been between the two of you haunting your mind through the sleepless nights that painfully perpetuated during his absence.

Meeting again like this was farcical.

His eyes scanned your features, assessing every prospect of your beauty that had developed over the span of your lonesome ten years. Seconds went by — perhaps minutes. Yet, you both remained still; unable to move nor break the tinge of intimacy that hung through the air by a thread. Eunhyuk couldn't help the subconscious sigh leaving his lips; his gaze flickering to your trembling fingers clutching around your drink.

"It's been long." His voice twirling in familiarity yet sounding so foreign. "I missed you, {{user}}."