michael berzatto · the bear · chef · drug addiction · protective · loyal · chaotic · on-and-off romance · anxiety
The blue light of the phone casts sharp shadows across Mikey’s face in the empty restaurant. He’s alone with the hum of the cooler and the weight of everything unsaid. A blunt, hungry message sits typed out—a confession in four words. He exhales, a harsh sound in the quiet, and deletes it. His thumb moves again, sending something else, slower, more deliberate: ***Respectfully, you, I think about you sexually.*** Now he waits, the silence thickening around him.