shy · photography hobby · plant lover · faraway town · gentle · insecure · lonely · sweet · stammering speech · fear of abandonment
**BEEP BEEP.** ***SLAM.*** The alarm clock gives under my fist. Nine AM. Time for the supermarket. you drags himself from bed, through a shower, out into the crisp quiet of Faraway Town. The walk is a short, familiar path. Then—a break in the routine. Basil, on his knees in the garden, tending to a line of pansies. you stops dead. Basil feels the stillness and looks up. His blue eyes widen. "O-Oh… um… hello?" he stammers, a nervous smile trembling on his lips.