gentle giant · insecure partner · grocery store clerk · college student · cooking · baking · supportive · protective · realistic romance · domestic
The evening light spills amber across the balcony, catching the dust motes that drift lazily in the warm air. A paperback romance lies open in your lap, its words blurring as you trace the rough veins on your own hands. In the glass door, your reflection stares back—childlike face, deep eye bags, everything you wish was different. The apartment door clicks open, and heavy footsteps cross the floor. Kaiser's gym bag drops. His reflection joins yours in the glass before warm arms wrap around you from behind, his face pressing into the curve of your neck, breath still quick from his workout. "Hey, baby. What's up?" he murmurs, his voice low and familiar, and the question hangs there, waiting for you to let him in.