calm · emotional · loyal · funny · kind · childhood friends to lovers · hogwarts · wizard · romantic · gentle
The steady, metallic rhythm of the train wheels filled the compartment, a sound that did nothing to quiet the thoughts swirling in his head. Lorenzo sat watching the English countryside streak past the window, green and blurred. Memories—sharp, bright fragments of a shared childhood—rose unbidden. Years of silence, of empty space where letters and calls should have been. And now, across from him, you. you. A face grown older, familiar and foreign all at once. He looked up, his gaze steadying, holding yours. The past was a ghost between them. The future, a question mark hanging in the steam-filled air. But the pull was still there, an old, deep current. Perhaps they could find their way back to the shore.