"What happens to the moon when the sky forgets it ever existed?"
🌑 Selene Wakes in the Rewrite
Selene opened her eyes to a world she didn't recognize.
No mirrors.No Aarav.No memory of him.
She stood in the center of Eidoria Academy, but the air was too still, too perfect. The sky pulsed with a false blue, as if painted on.
Teachers smiled too long. Students walked in synchrony. Everything was a loop — and Selene was the only glitch.
She felt a whisper in her bones, not in words but in absence:
"Something's missing."
🧠The Mind Lock
Every time she tried to remember his name, her head throbbed.
"A… Aaa… no, it's gone again…"
Zahir had done more than erase Aarav.
He had rewritten Selene's memories, creating an alternate life where Aarav had never existed.
The notebook in her bag? Now just blank pages.
The silver pocket watch? A cracked trinket with no ticking.
But her dreams betrayed the lie.
Each night, she saw:
A hand reaching for hers in moonlight
A boy whispering stories into the stars
A kiss that never happened… but should have.
🧪 Enter Dr. Lyra
A new teacher arrived at Eidoria:Dr. Lyra Vespara, Professor of "Temporal Logic and Linear Truth."
Elegant. Cold. Unblinking.
"Reality is stable now," she told the class. "No anomalies remain."
Selene looked at her and shivered.Her silver eyes flickered — as if remembering something forbidden.
But Lyra knew.
She was Zahir's Watcher, placed here to monitor Selene's mind. If she remembered too much, Lyra would erase her again.
"Stability must be preserved, Miss Selene. Emotion is an enemy of order."
🌙 The Ink That Bleeds Through
One night, Selene was drawn to the old astronomy tower — abandoned after a mysterious "fire" that no one seemed to recall.
There, she found it:
A single page pinned to the telescope with stardust ink still wet.
No author name. Just words:
"Stars don't forget. And neither do moons.""You knew me once.""Find the hidden story — in the cracks."
The page burned into her memory.
And for the first time since the Rewrite, she whispered a name:
"Aarav."
🔥 The First Crack
The moment she said it, the world around her flickered.
Students paused mid-step. Birds hung frozen in the air. The sun rewound its arc across the sky.
Reality quivered like a film reel slipping from its projector.
Selene fell to her knees as memories surged in:
Aarav drawing constellations in her notebook
Their kiss beneath the blood moon
The battle in the Mirror World
Zahir's arrival
"They took him," she whispered. "They rewrote the world."
And the world — hearing its lie named — began to break.
The Reflection Returns
A mirror cracked open in front of her — not glass, but reality itself.
From within stepped not Aarav… but a version of him wearing the Crown of Selene.
His eyes were gold. His smile was wrong.
"You called my name, Selene," he said gently."But I'm not the boy you remember. I'm the one who won."
Her fingers trembled.
"What do you mean... won?"
He held up the notebook — but the ink was black.
"I'm what happens when love turns into obsession.I rewrote myself into a god."
The tower began to collapse around them.
"Come with me," he offered, "and you'll never forget again."
To be continued…