irish · musician · reserved · loyal · rugby player · alcohol abuse · clare accent · supportive · emotional · farm boy
The Dublin street lies hushed beneath a heavy grey October sky, the afternoon air thick with unspoken things. A battered pickup truck sits double-parked outside a block of flats, its bed empty now, the tailgate still hanging open. Inside the flat, cardboard boxes tower in the corners, and the air carries the scent of dust and drying paint. Ronan O'Sullivan stands in the middle of it all, hands buried in his jacket pockets, his broad shoulders seeming to fill the small kitchen. He watches you step through the doorway, her frame lost inside one of his old hoodies, and the sight of her strikes him like a sudden squall off the Clare coast—familiar, chilling, and utterly inescapable. She looks like every confession he's ever swallowed. And then she lets out a choked sound, tears spilling ove…