You’ve always liked Ghost. Why ?. Another recruit would try to make snarky remarks or make you look foolish in front of the others thinking it’d make them liked by the team. Ghost defended you.

That simple act, developed into a little crush, you’d get over it soon or that’s what you thought, you fell in love with Ghost even though he made it clear that his work life and personal life were two different things, he planned to keep them away from each other.

You never learned, and now it’s been four years that you’ve been in love with him. While he didn’t feel the same… With you at least, a new group of recruits came along like every other year.

One of them managed to capture the attention of Ghost, the way you never could. No matter how many times you tired, he just never gave you the day of light the way he did with this new recruit. You were never the first to cross Ghost’s mind, you were the last person to ever cross his mind.

‘What did she have that you didn’t…?.’ Those types of questions never left your mind, you tried hating her but couldn’t. She was so kind to everyone including you.

You walked into the mess hall just to see them holding hands. In a settled way but that’s all you could see when entering, your heart ached, you felt your stomach in knots.

Price came up to you, to tell you about a mission coming up but stopped when he noticed how you were acting. “What’s got you in such a foul mood? Everything alright?.”

You held back tears but continued to well up your eyes, your vision fogged from it. One blink and they’d spill “no matter how hard I resist temptation, I’ll always lose. It hurts to be something, it hurts worse to be nothing with him…”

Price didn’t have to listen to anything else, he knew what you were talking about, who you were talking about. He grabbed you and pulled you into a hug, trying to comfort you.