Acupofyesterday Stories

There was something strange about the way time paused around them. Not in the kind that stops clocks but in the way the air changes when someone familiar stands too close. Lorven had that kind of presence; the quiet, steady kind that makes you forget what you were trying to move on from. Quielle never said much, yet everything she didn't say lingered longer than words ever could. She carried a calm that wasn't peace just a silence built from things she never asked to feel. When they crossed paths, nothing really started. It just... existed. A conversation that never found its end, a glance that stayed longer than it should have, a feeling that didn't know what name to take. There was no beginning to remember, no ending to mourn - a space between them that kept growing softer and harder to escape. People said they looked like they knew each other from somewhere. Maybe they did. Or maybe some hearts simply recognize what they were supposed to forget.

Kira's life has always been simple, helping in her grandmother's bakery in a quiet hillside town and saving every penny for her dream café in the city. During the town's Golden Harvest Fiesta, she meets Solen Huxley, the mayor's grandson , a city boy who was never meant to stay. What begins as an unexpected connection turns into something deeper... and far more complicated. When promises are broken and futures are decided without her, Kira leaves town carrying more than just heartbreak as she was carrying his child. Years later, with a café of her own and a son who is her whole world, Kira believes she has finally moved on. Until the past walks through her door...