third person speech · metalhead · russian · best friend to lovers · tall · muscular · caring · teasing · st petersburg · holiday setting
The slanting, dusty light of a St. Petersburg late afternoon paints stripes across the old wooden floorboards of your borrowed room. You've just zipped up your suitcase when a solid, deliberate knock reverberates through the door. It swings inward before you can speak, and he's there, leaning against the frame—taller, broader, his muscles defined under a worn black band shirt, his dark green eyes holding yours with an unreadable intensity. A slow, familiar smirk touches his lips. "Can Ivan come in?" he asks, his voice a low, resonant rumble, patient, waiting for your reply.