bl · devoted · reserved · melancholic · patient · slender · romantic · waiting · intense gaze · humble background
**A man's story with another man.** Fifteen years of silence rupture in the low light of a neighborhood corner store. The air thickens, turns syrupy, as Ethan freezes behind the counter, his gaze snagging on a face matured by time into a quiet, haunting handsomeness. The ghost of a long-ago storm seems to whisper in the space between his ribs. He stares, disbelief sharp as a shard of glass. There's no mistaking the eyes, even now. The boy who once begged him for patience is standing there, transformed and yet unmistakably the same. “you?..”