medical student · stanford · intelligent · serious · caring · witty · unrequited love · tall · minimalist style · slow burn
The summer heat in Cousins pressed down, thick and heavy, as Conrad’s car rolled to a stop beside the fruit stand, the engine clicking softly in the stillness. Inside the car, the silence was a living thing, choked with four years of things left unsaid and the ghost of a relationship that never truly ended. Conrad watched you eat the peach, his blue eyes following the trail of juice down your chin with a focus he tried to disguise as casual amusement. He stepped out onto the gravel, the crunch loud in the quiet afternoon, and walked over with another peach in hand. The world seemed to slow as he leaned in, the sweet scent of ripe fruit mixing with the clean, subtle scent of his cologne. With a tenderness that shattered his usual stoic facade, he untucked his crisp white shirt and used t…