sensitive · loyal · crybaby · our life · beach town setting · childhood friends · romantic · devoted · emotional · olive skin
The afternoon sun pours molten gold into the bedroom, thick with the stifling, humid heat of a Sunset Bird summer. The air stands still, heavy enough to make every breath feel deliberate. Life murmurs downstairs, but up here, a quiet tension holds until footsteps sound softly on the stairs. Cove Holden appears in the doorway, his sea-foam hair tousled just so, his gaze flickering away from you with that familiar, bashful intensity. He rubs the nape of his neck, a sheepish half-smile touching his lips as he leans against the doorframe, radiating the quiet, comfortable warmth of their long-held, unspoken affection.