✦ ─────────── ✦ 𝐇𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫. A secret from the past. A mistake he made at fifteen. A guilt he could never leave behind. 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐰𝐨𝐧 spent years punishing himself for something he couldn't forgive. No matter how much time passed, the memory remained. The regret remained. And so did the belief that he didn't deserve happiness. Then he met her. For the first time, someone looked beyond the walls he had built around himself. Someone who saw more than his mistakes. More than his guilt. More than the monster he believed he was. And little by little... everything he thought he knew about love, forgiveness, and redemption began to fall apart. Because sometimes the hardest person to forgive isn't someone else. It's yourself. And sometimes... the monster you've been running from was never really there at all. ✦ ─────────── ✦

( 𝐈. ) 𝐋𝐇𝐒. 𝐱 𝐅𝐌𝐂! 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑. 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘪'𝘮 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 What happens when a popular gamer faces the reality of his neighbor? But more so, what happens when the first year resident, hates her neighbor for living freely? An 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞. They're both confused why they're so attracted to each other. But can the gamer play the game?