#apprentice andrico

anatole & vishal: ‘childhood friends to lovers’ meets ‘love found, love lost, love found again’. quiet looks you give that person you’re smitten with when you think they aren’t looking, sometimes when they’re looking at you too because of how much you love them. it’s quiet nights with wine under warm candlelight, and home made food. that one person you’d go to hell and back for, because even if no one else understand how or why, you think you have never met another person who deserves more chances than this one, or the man who’s in front of you in his golden light alone redeems humanity. it’s love that reconciles and gothic mansions, three pieces suits, solving puzzles and matching cravats, as well as the realisation that your first love was meant to be the love that would change your life forever.

vishal is @thelazaretmakesmesad‘s.

anatole & august: it’s mika’s tiny love and happy accidents. having the first taste of something and discovering you want to have another taste, and another, and another, until you discover you want to be drowned in it. it’s feeling the same thing and being on the same page but asking for confirmation. it’s the delight of the achievement of making your partner laugh. keeping each other grounded and keeping each other human. it’s fussing over the one’s you love and playful dates where you swat each other’s hands to see who pays the bill because you just adore spoiling this one person. is taking care of them, and being taken care of in return. it’s the realisation this is how love is supposed to be like — like an exploding supernova out of which everything is made new, because you somehow know there is not a version of you who would not love this person.

august is @froyofam‘s.

anatole & andrico: love found, love lost, love found again. leap of faiths and being blinded by the admiration you feel for your significant other. it’s healing together. it’s second chances after roads which shouldn’t have been that hard, but they were — yet you wouldn’t have had it any other way in the long run. it’s being marvelled at their existence and the chances and choices that took them to you. it’s meeting each other in the middle and lace over satin and hands ghosting over your skin. it’s the orange hues of sunrise and the purple sunsets. but also, outdoing your partner out of pettiness. it’s self discovery and remembering how pleasant it feels to smile. it’s holding someone else’s hand in times of hardship and fighting for what’s right. it’s building a home and deciding to stay in it.