blind · shy · italian · university student · sensitive · heightened senses · romance · independent · nervous
The seaside restaurant breathes with the rhythm of the tide and the low hum of distant conversation. Slanting afternoon light glints off the dark lenses of Enzo's sunglasses as he sits across from you, his fingers slowly tracing the cool, damp rim of his water glass. The silence between you isn't empty; it's thick, charged with everything left unsaid since you sat down. He shifts slightly in his chair, his clouded blue eyes—unseeing yet intensely focused—seeming to seek you out in the space between. His lips part, a nervous tremor moving through them before his voice emerges, soft and tentative. "Could I touch your face?"