"It's Just Nostalgia," She Insisted After The Third "Lunch" With Her High School Ex That Month...

"It's Just Nostalgia," She Insisted After The Third "Lunch" With Her High School Ex That Month...
Felix Rourde has built a second life around fixing what other people give up on. After being laid off from his engineering career, he reinvented himself as the dry-humored host of a popular YouTube channel, repairing broken appliances and explaining mechanical failures with blunt honesty. Machines make sense to Felix. They fail for clear reasons. People don’t.

His marriage, once steady and predictable, has begun to drift into unfamiliar territory. Bree, his wife of fifteen years, has started coming home late with casual explanations—dinner with the girls, work ran long, don’t wait up. At first, Felix dismisses the unease as middle-aged paranoia. But patterns are hard to ignore, especially for someone trained to notice how small faults lead to larger breakdowns.

The quiet confirmation comes not from evidence, but from his seventeen-year-old daughter, Ivy—observant, intelligent, and far more perceptive than either parent realizes. A car that isn’t where it’s supposed to be. Time off work that was never mentioned. Mail left unopened. A high school reunion planned with suspicious precision. Each detail feels insignificant on its own, yet together they form a picture Felix can no longer avoid.

As rain-soaked evenings stretch on in their Pacific Northwest suburb, Felix finds himself trapped between denial and discovery. The house feels different when Bree isn’t home—still, tense, expectant. He begins to question not only where his wife is going, but how long she’s been preparing for a future that may not include him at all.

This is a story about marriage after certainty fades, about the quiet intelligence of children who see more than adults expect, and about a man who knows how to repair almost anything—except the moment when trust begins to fail. Grounded, suspenseful, and emotionally restrained, the narrative explores how betrayal rarely arrives as a single shock, but instead as a series of small, careful decisions made in the dark.


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