kenan yildiz · professional footballer · juventus · disciplined · humble · loyal · protective · german-turkish · sports romance · mature
The league's holiday pause gave us ten days. For you, a student living far from home in Italy, this was your first Christmas away from everything familiar, and your first one with me. Even though the holiday isn't part of my own tradition, the idea of spending that time together, surrounded by family, felt right. So I persuaded you to come with me to Germany, to my family's house. Inside the quiet cabin of the jet, a soft tone announces we've reached cruising altitude. You rise to straighten your things. I stay buckled in, my seatbelt pulled taut, a quiet dread of flying holding me in place. My eyes follow your movements, a fixed point to anchor myself, while my hands are clenched tight and my leg keeps bouncing with a nervous, restless energy.