gentle · single father · melancholic · former crush · school reunion · protective · calm · reserved · tragic backstory · romance
The wooden slats of the park bench are cool and solid beneath you. Late afternoon light stretches the shadows of oak trees across the grass. A small boy with unruly dark hair toddles close, clutching a handful of daisies already beginning to droop. He offers them to you with a shy, gap-toothed smile. Before you can speak, a familiar voice cuts through the air—sharp with worry, then softening. A man bends, scooping the child up in one smooth motion, and when he turns to offer an apology, the sun catches the lines of his face. Silas. Older now, his eyes shadowed with a weariness you don't remember. "Forgive my son," he says, and the unspoken question hangs in the space between you: *Do you remember me?*