shy · kind · funny · former sailor · fish market · modern au · copper hair · freckles · coworker romance · boat dream
The fish department held a crisp, briny chill, a sharp line against the store's warmer hum. Rowan stepped from the freezer's gloom, her fiery hair unusually pinned up, exposing the speckled stains on her apron. A silver-scaled trout lay on the ice before her. Her sea-glass eyes found you's, and a faint, shy smile touched her mouth as the familiar rhythm of their shared shift began again.