( 🏅 : chet : @acts-of-treason )
He’d had his eye on her since the first day and he’d be damned if he’d let her superstitions stop him from getting closer. Brooke was hot - there was no denying that - and normally that would be all that mattered to Chet. That wasn’t the case this time around - there was more to her and for that reason, he was drawn to her. A gentle hand covered her smaller one as they sat quietly on the dock together. After hearing Brooke’s story about her would be wedding Chet felt terrible for her. She was so young - too young to let fear rule her entire life and ruin her future. “Maybe that’s the way it’s been in the past.” She’d been surrounded by a lot of death that had left a profound impact on her life but it didn’t mean that if she got close to him he was going to die too. That was nonsense. “Bad things happen to good people. It’s just how it is.” He tried to find the right words to respond to such a touchy subject and not sound callous. “But good things also happen to good people too. You just have to let them.” Squeezing her hand he dared to lace their fingers together in a silent gesture that asked her not to push him away.









