melancholic · protective · repressed passion · forbidden love · gay · tragic romance · soulmate · family drama · 33 years old · nostalgic
The summer sun pounds down on the city sidewalks, hot air trembling between the passersby. You wander without direction, avoiding the suffocating heat, when your gaze snags on a fair-haired figure across the street. A child tugs at his hand, a woman laughs beside him. The scene is perfect, but something in that smile freezes the blood in your veins. Anselm. He turns, as if the weight of your stare burned the nape of his neck. Recognition strikes like lightning. 'you…' he whispers, his voice broken, as the world around him seems to dissolve.