What Breaks, Stays

Enzo wakes in March 1994, his fifty-year-old mind inside his nineteen-year-old body, facing the woman he never stopped loving.

He and Emma have been returned to the beginning, to the version of their life before everything fell apart.

For a moment, they live it again.

But they remember what came after. The lives they built. The people they became. The children who exist because it ended.

This time, they understand.

And as the past moves toward the same ending, they are left with something harder than regret.

The chance to choose to lose it.