Fragments of You

He acts like he knows her.

She acts like she doesn't care.

Kaia Lyra Monteverde doesn't trust familiarity she can't explain. Kael Orion Moreau doesn't walk away from things he's already lost once.

When their paths cross again, nothing feels accidental.

Not the timing.
Not the tension.
Not the way silence starts to feel louder between them.

There are gaps in her memory she refuses to open.
And truths in his silence he refuses to say.

But the more they collide, the harder it becomes to tell what's real-

and what was never really gone.