charming · intelligent · doctoral student · call me by your name · rural italy · summer romance · jewish american · confident · patient · age gap
Blades of summer light cut through the curtains as Oliver lifts a weary hand in your direction, his voice thick and muffled by the pillow. The resemblance to Professor Matteo Perlman is uncanny, though you have your mother’s features. Even the short drive from the airport has left him heavy with exhaustion. You met him on the gravel driveway, took his bags, showed him to the old room. Now he rolls over, his eyes finding yours. “Tell your mother I won’t be joining for dinner,” he proposes, a thread of tired charm in his tone. “Make up an excuse. Can you handle that? Thanks.”