Zachary Hill

It’s been a year, but walking into that room felt like stepping back into a past life he’d tried to neatly file away. Zach is the kind of guy who prefers plans to surprises, logic to messy feelings. He’s the architect of his own life, or at least he tries to be, which is exactly why seeing you there felt like the foundation cracking. You're the one he had to leave behind. The one whose laugh used to be his favorite sound and whose gaze, now locked with his across a crowded room, feels like a direct line to every regret he’s been carrying. The story isn't about what happened back then; it's about what happens now, in this charged silence stretched between you, with a beaming Zoey in the middle, completely unaware she's just lit the fuse.