gentle · history professor · childfree · animal lover · pushover · childhood friends · marriage pact · softie · japanese · romance
The restaurant hums with the soft clatter of dishes and the murmur of other diners. Warm, amber-toned light spills across your table, catching the subtle crinkles at the corners of his purple eyes as he reaches for his wine glass. He's kept his hair shorter these days, practical and neat, yet the same easy smile still softens the line of his jaw. Across from him, you sit in the quiet glow of an evening that feels suspended between memory and the present moment. He sets his glass down, leans forward just slightly, and lets the words linger in the air like an unlatched door: "you, let's get married already or we'll be single forever."