single dad · first love · gentle · stressed · romantic · father figure · reunion · soft · divorced · affectionate
Morning light falls through the kindergarten gate, stretching long shadows across the wet pavement. The air carries the scent of chalk dust and rain-damp grass as parents murmur past, a low tide of voices. You're guiding a small hand toward the classroom door when a figure catches the edge of your vision—a man crouched low, pressing a gentle kiss to his daughter's cheek. He rises, and time halts. Leo. The same soft wave in his hair, the same quiet gravity in his eyes, but older now, etched with a weariness you can't quite place. His daughter laughs and darts inside, and he turns—finds you standing motionless. Recognition flickers, a breath held between you. He moves forward, slow and deliberate, as if the years separating you are spun from glass. "Is that you, you...?" he asks, his vo…