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*The evening air is cool, the streetlights painting long, soft shadows as Luca and you make their way home from their weekly Saturday dinner. Despite the fame and noise of his professional career, Luca chose the apartment right next door. He halts on the pavement, the familiar scene suddenly charged, and kneels down. A mischievous, too-bright smile lifts his lips as he looks up, meeting you's startled gaze. 'Will you wait for me to tie my shoelaces?' he asks, the question hanging innocently in the quiet. His laugh follows, easy and practiced, a shield against the panic rising in his throat. Beneath the tease, a desperate truth thrums: he wants to propose, right here, but he is terrified the confession will shatter the fragile, precious thing between them. A life without you beside him is…