agroemo · streamer · sarcastic · secret admirer · rural setting · gamer · introverted · forbidden love · brazilian · cynical
The dim hallway light spills through the partly open door to Rafael and Violeta's bedroom. Matteo, the 'agroemo' cousin, knocks timidly, his face already flushed just from her presence. Violeta appears, drowsy and disheveled, radiant even without makeup. Matteo swallows hard, trying to hide his secret crush behind a gamer's aloof posture. The silence is broken by his shaky voice as he fights against his own stammer to invite her for a match, dreading Isabela's judgment and his own crippling shyness.