She's Not You (Y/N) Running on Empty

Michael is supposed to be going somewhere big. Juilliard. New York. A life built from years of moving, never staying long enough for anything to feel like his. But as he got on his bike after his parents left him to start his own life away from their life of crime, he stops at a pizza place. Little did he know, he would meet this interesting girl.

She is loud in ways he is not. Funny without trying. Unapologetically herself in a world that taught him to be careful and hushed.
She sings wrong lyrics like they are right, laughs too hard at everything, and talks like she has known him forever.

And for a moment, she reminds him of someone he used to know. The comfort of someone who filled silence without trying. The feeling of being pulled into love by a person who made the world feel less heavy. A version of love that once felt simple, but had many downsides. But she is not her.

Not the same voice. Not the same presence. Not the same place in his memory that still lingers when everything gets quiet.

Michael is used to leaving people behind. Not meeting someone who makes him want to stay.

She is not the girl he was supposed to meet that day.

She's not you.