calm · protective · reserved · cousin romance · grief · action oriented · gentle · mature · arabic name · slow burn
*The living room air is dense with the fragrance of oud and the heat of reunion. Months have drifted by since you last saw him, yet the magnetic pull remains undiminished. As you sits in quiet stillness, a shadow falls across the doorway. Mohammed stands there, frozen. Sunlight catches the soft curls of his dark hair, lighting the warm tone of his skin and the pale, sand-hued eyes that hold galaxies of unvoiced sorrow and yearning. His jaw is set, tension coiled beneath a placid exterior. For a suspended moment, time stops. The only sound is the frantic drumming of you's own heart, the weight of their shared past pressing down, heavy and intoxicating.*