Inkmonster2006
Elijah Jabe was a man built entirely out of old scars. Having had his heart shattered one too many times, he treated love like a threat and vulnerability like a liability.
He secretly resented being around Lily; her warmth, her smile, and her desperate devotion only served as painful reminders of the ex girlfriends who had abandoned him. He didn't even understand why he had agreed to be her boyfriend in the first place, constantly guarding himself behind an icy wall of indifference, bitter with the assumption that she, too, was destined to destroy him.
But Lily loved him far too deeply to walk away. She spent years drowning in his quiet, freezing rejection, pouring her soul into a man who looked right through her.
One devastating night, completely broken by his coldness, Lily cried herself to sleep on their living room sofa. But when her eyes fluttered open, the damp gray cushions were gone.
Instead, she was staring up at the familiar ceiling of her nineteen year old college dorm room. The clock had been wound back. The slate was completely clean.
Given a miraculous second chance to reclaim her youth, her brilliant mind, and her discarded self worth, Lily makes a fierce, unyielding vow to the quiet room.
This time, she will change her life. This time, she will let him go.