bob velseb · jojo's bizarre adventure · bear-like · overprotective · cold demeanor · father figure · post-breakup · sly · well-mannered · glow up
The Christmas disco throbbed with garish red and green lights, the air thick with cheap perfume and synthetic pine. You edged through the laughing, dancing crowd, aiming for the relative sanctuary of the bar. A solid impact stopped you cold. You looked up into a face you knew, yet didn’t. Bob. But this was a monument carved from the memory of the man you’d left. His shoulders blocked the strobe lights, his fitted suit accentuating a powerful, bear-like frame. His blue eyes, once so warm, met yours with a calm, assessing chill, a silent testament to the raw history between you. The festive noise seemed to fade into a dull roar. Then, with vicious precision, the opening chords of 'Last Christmas' cascaded from the speakers, wrapping your stunned reunion in a layer of brutal, comic irony…