StoryTree
you are here

Two Weeks, Wrong City

romanceEveryone
6 contributors · 4 paragraphs deep

Thirty seconds later: "I'm Theo. Vienna." "Alex. Venice." She said it like reading from a script. But she didn't move away. She just... stayed. Like maybe being alone with her own thoughts was worse than standing next to a stranger. I didn't push. Some connections start in the gaps between words.

She turned away. And I stood there knowing I'd lost whatever chance existed. The board lit: both trains from Platform 5. When we got in line, she was somewhere else in the crowd. I got on Vienna solo. She probably got to Venice thinking about anyone but me. Some people pass through and that's all they do — pass.

↔ version 3 of 3 of this paragraph — hover its sides to flip. The card below is what happens next.

What happens next?

0 ways forward
Vote share across the top 0 branches
No futures yet — be the one who decides what happens next.