Past Perfect, Love Lost

Five years ago, they were everything. Now, he belongs to someone else.

Cerise Louve thought she had finally escaped the past-until a Valentine's-themed project forces her to pair up with the one person she never wanted to face again. Yzhreal. The boy she once loved, now caught in the delicate balance between what was and what could be.

But he's different now. Committed, careful, already building something new with someone else. He looks at her like she's just another face in the crowd, while she struggles to pretend that it doesn't hurt.

She tells herself it's just a project, a fleeting partnership with an expiration date. But with every lingering glance, every unspoken word, and every memory that refuses to fade, Cerise realizes-how do you act like strangers with someone you once called home?

And worse... how do you let go when you were never the one who stopped holding on?