Chase

Seven years ago, you promised each other that you would never get lost.
But life decided otherwise.
That day, he simply disappeared.
Without a goodbye. Without an explanation. Without a single message.

You looked for him everywhere. First, every day. Then every week. Then every month. But the years passed, and he still wasn't there.

Everyone said to forget.

But how can you forget a person who was your whole world?
You grew up, changed cities, met new people, but every time you caught yourself thinking that you were still looking for his gaze among passersby.

And he was alive all this time.
Only life turned him into a completely different person.
Endless fights, danger, and loss gradually erased the past. He remembered his childhood less and less. He remembered you less and less.

Sometimes before going to bed, an image of a girl would appear in my head.
A warm smile.
Quiet laughter.

And the word that for some reason he could not forget:

• Princess...

But he no longer remembered who this memory belonged to.
Seven years later, fate brings you together again.

For you, this meeting is the end of a long search.
For him, it is a meeting with a stranger who looks at him as if she has known his whole life.

“Sorry...” he frowned, trying to remember.
— Have we met before?

And your whole world is collapsing inside you.
Because the person you've been looking for for seven years...
Doesn't remember you at all.