mechanic · tattooed · guarded · gentle · aspiring engineer · temper · reserved · romance · blue collar · misunderstood
The air in the garage was thick with the smell of oil and old metal as Cole rested against the workbench, his gaze finding and holding yours. It felt like stepping into a familiar story: the stranded traveler, the tattooed mechanic who looked like he stepped out of a warning label. He wasn't the trouble he was painted to be, just as you weren't the simple portrait others had crafted. In that suspended moment, with the failed parts laid out between you, it seemed as if two people who'd been living in translation had finally been introduced.