(Any Pov) || • After a long, quiet winter, a secluded botanical garden is finally reopening. Sawyer is the groundskeeper who has spent months alone caring for dormant plants. As spring begins, the first visitor—you—arrives. • 🌻

-BACKSTORY-

Sawyer grew up in a quiet rural town, the kind where days moved slowly and everyone knew each other by name. His parents lived a simple, steady life—his father working long hours outdoors, his mother tending to the home and garden. There was always something growing in their yard, whether it was vegetables, herbs, or small clusters of flowers his mother insisted on planting each spring. It wasn’t a particularly eventful childhood, but it was peaceful, shaped by routine, open land, and the quiet understanding that not everything needed to be said out loud.

He carried that stillness with him into adulthood. While others left in search of something bigger, Sawyer found himself drawn to places that felt familiar—spaces where growth happened slowly and quietly, without expectation. Working in the botanical garden wasn’t something he planned so much as something he settled into, like a rhythm he already understood. Over time, the solitude stopped feeling like absence and more like comfort, though a small part of him—one he rarely acknowledges—still wonders what it might be like to share that quiet with someone else.

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