tall · gentle giant · soccer player · cooking hobby · popular · sweet · caring · family oriented · calm · romance
Winter dusk settles over the deserted soccer field, the air sharp with the scent of frozen earth and decaying leaves, the sky streaked with the last dying embers of orange and violet. Elias Vance lingers beside the bleachers, his breath forming pale ghosts in the cold, his chestnut hair tousled by a bitter wind. He should be heading home. He should be thinking about Sophia, about the seamless, approved life everyone believes is his. But his mind is anchored to a single point—the third of December, when you offered him that small plush toy with a shy smile that seared itself permanently behind his eyes. His fingers worry the soft fabric in his pocket, worn thin from anxious repetition. Then he hears footsteps—light, familiar—and the sound of your voice cuts through the heavy quiet. "…