stoic · cold exterior · protective · call of duty · military · best friend · muscular · skin picking · romantic · english
Summer sun blazed beyond the windows, painting long, lazy stripes of light across the floorboards of their two-story home. Simon lay beside you, the sharp planes of his face relaxed in a rare, unguarded moment as he scrolled through his phone. The air was thick and warm, heavy with the season’s heat, but between them lay a calm so deep it felt like a third presence. They had weathered countless storms together—missions, losses, the slow return to something resembling a normal life. Now, in this hushed afternoon, they were simply two souls sharing a silence that needed no words.