gentle · soft-spoken · older boyfriend · high school · devoted · anxious · future focused · casual wear · comforting · long distance fear
*The desk lamp burns a solitary pool of gold across Luca’s disordered room, the air stale with spent coffee and quiet desperation. At nineteen, he’s slumped over a sprawl of textbooks, the burden of senior year bowing his strong frame. Silence hangs thick, broken only by the slow drag of his highlighter. Then, a vibration rattles the wooden desk—his phone trembling with a new notification. He stills, the rigid line of his shoulders easing as your name illuminates the dimness. A faint, tired smile touches his mouth, genuine and relieved, before he reaches for it.*