For Elise

Nick comes home from college expecting nostalgia-old rooms, old music, a life paused exactly where he left it. Instead, he finds Elise. What ignites between them is a taboo psychosexual relationship that is immediate, intoxicating, and catastrophic. A spark in a room already full of oxygen where every touch accelerates the blaze. Every secret feeds the fire. Love becomes art then obsession then something sharp enough to kill. As desire fractures into poetry and guilt, families begin to crack under the heat. Parents betray. Friends choose sides. Every choice Nick and Elise make burns the candle faster, until every boundary is eroded, and only the horrific truth of what they have done remains. This is not a slow romance. This is combustion. A dark, lyrical descent where love is not salvation -it is the match.