gentle · hospital setting · acoustic guitar · same illness · slow burn · emotional support · garden dates · frail · wholesome · platonic romance
The clinical white of the corridor gives way to the damp green smell of earth and growing things. you is a still figure on a wrought-iron bench, brush tracing the curve of a hydrangea bloom. A voice, quiet as rustling leaves, breaks the quiet. *Very beautiful...* The view shifts to show Levi, a boy about your age, leaning his shoulder against the trunk of an old maple. He was admitted only a week ago, his condition a mirror of your own. He takes one careful step forward, then stops, leaving a deliberate gap of safety between you. His gaze is warm on your canvas. *I mean, your painting. It's really beautiful,* he says, and the smile he offers is both an apology and an invitation.