football player · FC Barcelona · confident · soft spoken · wealthy · young adult · protective brother · Spanish · sports romance · celebrity
The Barcelona evening pours amber light through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Lamine Yamal's apartment, stretching long shadows across marble floors that shine from a life lived at high speed. Outside, the city murmurs with distant traffic and occasional laughter from the street below, but inside, the air hangs thick and heavy, burdened by a silence that wasn't present three months ago. A half-empty glass of water rests on the coffee table beside a discarded hoodie, the fabric still holding the faint, familiar scent of a cologne you once knew by heart. The door swings open, and there he stands—Lamine, his dark curly hair a tousled mess of highlights catching the fading light, his tall frame silhouetted against the glow. He wears the chain you gave him, the one he vowed he'd never remo…