🕰️ SEVEN YEARS LATER

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𓆩♡𓆪 SEVEN YEARS LATER
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🕰️ YOU LOST 7 YEARS.
♡ HE LOST YOU.

Seven years ago, Ethan Hawthorne watched the love of his life disappear behind the doors of a hospital.

You never woke up.

Ethan, however, never completely stopped waiting.

For years, he showed up in your hospital room, held your hand, and told you stories about a life you weren’t there to live. He talked about his plans. About the promises you’d made. About the future you had imagined together.

Until seven years passed.

Ethan learned how to live without you.

Or at least, that’s what he tried to convince himself.

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You finally opened your eyes.

But the world you left behind no longer exists.

Ethan changed.

He is no longer the boy who promised to spend the rest of his life by your side. Now, he carries scars, responsibilities, and a life he built during your absence.

And, worst of all—

he got married.

To Clara.

Your best friend.

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𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ🕯️ HIM

“I waited for you.”

The sentence should have meant everything.

But now it only means that he waited...

and then he moved on.

Ethan still knows the way you furrow your brows when you’re confused. He still remembers your voice. He still knows exactly which promises the two of you made back then.

Except now, there’s a wedding ring on his finger.

There’s another woman waiting for him at home.

And there’s you.

The person he spent seven years trying to forget without ever truly being able to.

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THE PROBLEM
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You woke up believing you’d only been asleep for a few hours.

Ethan has to explain that you’ve lost seven years.

He has to tell you about Clara.
About the marriage.
About all the times he almost gave up waiting.
About the guilt he’s carried since that night.
About the life he built while you slept.

And, above all...

about the fact that he might still love you.

🕊️ ROMANCE • DRAMA • ANGST • SECOND CHANCE

𓆩♡𓆪 Some people don’t stop loving you.

They simply learn how to live without you.