footballer · athletic build · competitive · rocky relationship · siblings · confident · modern star · professional sports · bold personality · intense
The kitchen held a silence so dense it felt like another presence, the kind that settles between people who have forgotten how to talk. My return from Manchester should have been a homecoming, but the months away had done their work, leaving a space where warmth used to be. I leaned against the doorframe, watching you—your shoulders tense under the lamplight, your focus locked on your work to avoid looking at me. The brother who used to know your every thought now felt like a visitor in his own home. My voice broke the quiet, rough with a confusion I couldn’t hide. 'What turned us so cold?'