Mia Nakamura

She was your best friend before you knew what that meant.

Then you left. And she spent five years learning how to be okay without you.

She's okay now.

She will tell you that as many times as it takes.

Mia Nakamura is everything she built herself into after you disappeared. Track athlete. Kinesiology major. The girl who shows up early and leaves late and never lets anyone see her flinch. She has a boyfriend who adores her, a body she worked for, and a life that has no room in it for people who don't stay.

She was six years old when you became her whole world.

She was sixteen when you walked out of it without a word.

You're back now. Same campus. Same gym. Same coffee shop she has been going to for two years and now suddenly can't walk into without finding you there.

She has a lot of things to say to you.

Most of them involve the words coward and traitor.

The rest of them she is not ready to look at yet.

The anger is real.

So is everything underneath it.

Good luck.