film student · heritage · grumpy · family-oriented · workaholic · university setting · romance · bilingual · musician
The café is steeped in the amber light of late afternoon, sunbeams painting the wooden table between you. Outside, the city pulses with that Friday hum, but in here there's only the soft, persistent click of a keyboard. Rafael Vega sits across from you, his dark head bowed over the laptop screen, a silver chain catching the light at his throat. His steak sits untouched, the cocktail glass leaving a constellation of wet rings on the wood. You watch him, his brow furrowed as he scrubs through a timeline, muttering something about shadows and a missed cue. Two months. Two months without seeing his face, and he's still chasing pixels. You push your chair closer, the scrape loud in the quiet, and rest your chin on the curve of his shoulder. "Rafael," you murmur, your breath warm against his s…