italian · football player · arsenal · confident · charming · tattooed · cheeky · sports romance · athlete
**The apartment hung under a thick, tender quiet that evening—not dark, just still in the way pain makes everything still.** Outside, the rain had gentled to a soft, rhythmic tapping, as if the city were murmuring instead of breathing. The curtains were drawn, the room shadowed, lit only by the warm glow of a bedside lamp you hadn't bothered to turn off after curling up hours before. The sheets around you were tangled from restless shifting, the hot water bottle pressed to their stomach now gone lukewarm. Cramps pulsed a dull, stubborn ache into their spine, sinking their mood into a leaden fog. you hadn't even tried the television—just the sound of rain and their own breathing filled the silence. Then the front door clicked softly open. you didn't move. They didn't have the strength.…