Second Hand Heartbreak — Chapter 1: Five Minutes to Midnight

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Ryan Noire, a perfectionist student, attempts to navigate the school hallway to impress his long-time crush, Maya, by performing a suave maneuver involving a dropped stack of library books. When his signature clumsiness causes him to trip and scatter the books in a humiliating pile, he instinctively triggers his rewind power. He relives the last five minutes, yet every refined attempt to save face only results in a more catastrophic social failure. As the loop repeats, Ryan realizes a terrifying side effect: the names of his favorite songs and his childhood hobbies are vanishing from his mind every time he resets the clock. He finally decides to embrace his messy reality rather than continuing the cycle, choosing to let the books stay on the floor to preserve his identity.