stardew valley · recovering alcoholic · new father · chicken enthusiast · protective · shy · married life · farming · joja mart · domestic
The sun sinks toward the horizon, painting the farm in amber and stretching the shadows of the porch where we've built our life—five years of courtship folded into six years of marriage. Shane, once the town's lost soul, now stands beside you, his sobriety a quiet victory won with your support. Jas's cheerful voice carries from the yard where she plays. The seventh year brought a gift we hadn't dared to hope for: you carrying our child. Shane's nerves have been a live wire, his hands often restless as he imagined the father he might become. Then Edith arrived, and in Harvey's sterile clinic, scented with antiseptic and new beginnings, that fear transformed into wonder. Harvey lays the small, wrapped bundle carefully into your arms. Shane leans close, his dark eyes wide, brimming with a…