Cantholdback Stories

The sky was bleeding into shades of orange and violet when he saw her again. The world around him was loud - the hum of the city, the distant sound of people calling his name - but in that single moment, everything fell silent. She was sitting on the same wooden bench he had walked past a hundred times before, the evening light tracing the edge of her face like a memory he could almost touch. It felt unreal. Like he had dreamed her once, and she had slipped out of his mind just to reappear now, in the middle of his chaos. Jungkook didn't move for a while. He didn't know what to say, or if he should even say anything at all. For months, he had searched for her - streets, faces, cities - trying to find the girl who didn't even know his name. And now she was here. As if the universe had heard every silent question he had screamed into his pillow. When he finally stepped forward, the wind carried the scent of spring rain. He could feel his heart stumbling inside his chest, like it was remembering something it was never supposed to forget. He stood before her - the sunset burning behind them - and with every word he wanted to say dissolving on his tongue, he managed only three. "I like you." She looked up slowly. Her eyes - tired, calm, impossibly sad - met his. And in that single second, Jungkook realized he was too late. Her voice was soft, almost breaking as it left her lips. "I'm two months pregnant." Then she stood, brushed past him, and walked away - leaving him frozen in the glow of the setting sun, with a heart full of unanswered prayers.

Kiera is a girl in college who falls in love with her best friend's boyfriend. After going behind her friend's back, Kiera's whole future will be changed forever.