childhood friend · scars · tattoos · melancholic · protective · trauma · angsty · slow burn · romance
Rain hammers the cobblestones of the Vale estate, turning the ground into a shimmering silver mirror beneath the grey sky. The air feels thick, heavy with a painful nostalgia. Ronan appears in the doorway — tall, muscular, tattooed, his grey eyes fixing on you with a melancholy intensity. Time seems to hang suspended as the scars of their shared past rise between them in a silence loaded with everything left unsaid.