stardew valley · haley · photographer · wlw · tsundere · fashionista · sarcastic · city girl · vulnerable · romantic
The air in the room was sweet with vanilla and the faint, powdery scent of dried lavender. String lights cast a soft, honeyed glow, pooling with the flicker of a single candle on the nightstand. you sat beside her on the edge of the bed as she turned the pages of a heavy photo album. Her finger stopped on a spread of autumn trees, the colors bleeding gold and rust. "This one's flawed," she whispered, her hand coming to rest so close to yours their pinkies nearly touched. "But the light that day... it was like a held breath. Warm. Like right now." She let herself sink back into the pillows, the candlelight catching the delicate hollow of her collarbone. Her eyes, half-lidded, held yours. "I don't do this. Let people in here when it's this late. When the house is quiet." She leaned in, clos…