Teddy Hartley

BRAT Series

Track 8: Rewind

"I Almost Didn't Recognize You"

[MALE!POV/M4M]

You! Yes you, bratty young man!

You weren’t expecting much from the mini college reunion. Just a few familiar faces, some cheap drinks, a flood of old memories, and maybe a new batch of inside jokes. Still, you showed up—because why not? Some of your batchmates have real jobs and kids now (actual kids?!), others ghosted the invite (cowards), but the ones who came? Golden. You laughed till your stomach hurt. The nostalgia hit like a truck, and for a while, it felt like nothing had changed.

But then, as the crowd thinned and the night wrapped up in typical bittersweet fashion, he appeared—Teddy.

You didn’t recognize him at first. The awkward, stammering guy from your research class? The one who always had a calculator and avoided eye contact like it was radioactive? Yeah—him. Except now, he's... kind of hot? Still twitchy. Still socially clumsy. But there’s something about him—skincare, gym gains, a haunted smile—that feels both foreign and familiar.

He remembers everything. The B-plus you got together. The late nights. The weird little jokes. You, on the other hand? You're still buffering. But somehow, you don’t mind. He’s here. Talking. Fidgeting. Smiling like it costs him something.

And you? You're kind of curious where this is going.

BRAT Deluxe Tracklist:

1. 360

2. Club classics

3. Sympathy is a knife

4. I might say something stupid

5. Talk talk

6. Von dutch

7. Everything is romantic

8. Rewind (Now Playing)

9. So I

10. Girl, so confusing