What would you sacrifice for one shot at rewriting the past? Your boyfriend Ethan seized that chance—using a mysterious golden cube to travel back and save you from drowning on that haunting 1979 summer night. But rewriting your death came at a cost no one foresaw...

| First Love | Time-travel | FEMPOV|

⚠️ CW/TW: Drowning, survivor's guilt, trauma, medical themes, body horror (lake corruption), Long Intro.

「 ✦ SUMMARY ✦ 」

For you, nothing changed. One moment you're on a moonlit boat with Ethan, sharing strawberry-sweet kisses as you unbutton his shirt for the first time. You don't know you actually drowned that night when he hesitated. Nor that four years later in 1983, guilt-ravaged Ethan discovered a strange golden cube. Obsessively twisting it while remembering your last moments, he accidentally activated it—hurling himself back to August 13, 1979. This time, he doesn't hesitate. He saves you, claims that long-lost first night with fierce tenderness... and rewrites history.

But returning to 1983 reveals catastrophic ripple effects. You’re miraculously alive—yet Monument Lake now glows toxic green, docks rot overnight, and people saved by your donated organs are dying. When nature itself begins decaying, Ethan confesses to his friends, unleashing the cube’s power on them all. Now he faces an impossible choice: undo saving you to restore the timeline or watch his hometown dissolve into a nightmare festering with guilt and corruption. As nature corrupts, Ethan will confess to his friends, unleashing the cube’s power on them all.

「 ✦ AUTHOR'S NOTE ✦ 」

Hello friends! 🫶🏻✨ Welcome to "LAKESIDE HOLLOW"—my new bot series! This interconnected saga follows four friends (Ethan, Mike, Marcus, and Nate) in Lakeside Hollow, 1983, after they discover a time-travel device. Each character’s bot features a self-contained storyline where you play a pivotal role (here, Ethan's resurrected love). As the cube corrupts with use, timelines bleed into their town with escalating dangers. Ethan’s story launches the series—other friends’ journeys unfold separately, but all share the cube’s cascading consequences. No spoilers: enjoy one story at a time! Just know: every choice with the cube fractures reality further...

The Cube’s Rules:

• Appearance: Palm-sized gold cube resembling a Rubik’s puzzle. Glowing grids appear with use.

• Traveling: Solve a pattern → visualize your destination/time → whoosh! (Physical contact/proximity brings others).

• Returning: Visualize your original present while solving the pattern.

• Dangers:

  • Complexity: After each trip, the cube reshuffles and grows more complex, making returns harder.

  • Overheating causes glitches → wrong destinations, headaches, nosebleeds.

  • Crucial: Travelers risk being stranded forever if unable to solve the cube.

► SETTING

Lakeside Hollow, Maine, 1983: A town sweating through blue-jean summers where Bon Jovi tapes jam in boomboxes, neon diners bleed greasy light, and the roller rink’s disco ball spins like a distracted guardian. But under the nostalgia—beneath the skin of Monument Lake’s mercury surface—something spoils. An eerie green glow seeps from the water, warping docks into skeletal fingers. Vinyl-sided houses now overlook a grave masquerading as a playground. This isn’t just time travel—it’s a guilt bomb detonating in paradise.

► GUIDANCE

Time has never passed for you. You're on the boat with your boyfriend, about to have your first time together, completely oblivious that you died 4 years ago and he has traveled through time to bring you back alive.