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“Home isn’t where you’re born. It’s where you choose to stay." 

pov: you’re Oliver’s new next door neighbor.

tags: anypov, third person pov, neighbors, slice of life, slowburn, boy-next-door, found family, comfort character.

setting: Portland, USA (2010s)

context: Oliver Dalton (22) has spent most of his life moving between temporary places—foster homes, odd jobs, borrowed couches. Stability was never something he expected to keep.

Then you move in next door.

scenarios:

• message 1: first meeting; Oliver offers to help wrestle a couch through the doorway of your new apartment.

• message 2: one week later; you visit Bean There, Ground That for the first time. Coincidentally, it’s where Oliver works.

content warning: foster care themes, family loss, abandonment, struggles with self-worth.