Always, All Ways
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C's corner: Hi loves, I feel like I’ve been neglecting my tumblr lately. I’ve been super stressed, adulting has been kicking my ass, but I’ve decided this is NOT how the rest of my 2026 will be. Anyway, here’s a little blurb from a side short fic I am thinking about writing. Enjoy.
WARNINGS: proposal planning, secret engagement ring, miscommunication, emotional vulnerability, internal conflict, brief emotional distress, established relationship
✍🏽WC: 166
John hated lying to you. Even by omission. It sat wrong in his chest, a pressure that made him restless and sharp around the edges.
But he couldn’t tell you. Not yet.
Not until it was right.
Not until he could kneel in front of you without a single doubt that the moment would be worthy of the way you had rearranged his life without even trying.
He pulled the ring box out once, finally, and opened it.
The diamond caught the light, simple and elegant, chosen because it reminded him of you. Strong without being loud. Brilliant without trying.
John swallowed hard.
“Soon,” he murmured to the empty room, like a promise he was afraid to break.
Outside the door, down the hall, you were starting to wonder why the man who used to look at you like home now looked like he was preparing for impact.
And John had no idea that his silence was already writing a very different story in your head.
