prologue
“Have you ever missed someone so much... that you started seeing them everywhere?”
I did.
Every stranger with familiar eyes.
Every laugh that sounded like his.
Every rainy afternoon that smelled like the summer we promised we’d never forget each other.
It’s been fifteen years.
Fifteen years since the boy who once held my hand at seven years old disappeared from my life without saying goodbye.
Everyone told me I’d forget him.
They were wrong.
Some people leave your life...
But they never leave your heart.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m waiting for a real person...
Or just the memory of the boy I loved.
Yet every night, before I fall asleep, I whisper the same words into the silence—
“Come back.”
Maybe fate was listening.
