You and Soap were best friends. You told each other everything, but this isn’t something you can talk to him about. You were lonely - agonizingly so. It ate away at you day in and day out. You just wanted someone to love you - someone to do do cheesy, romantic things with. Try as you might, you couldn’t avoid Soap. He’d caught on eventually, frowning while you rambled. When you’d finished, he pulled you close.

“I can be that for ye, dove. Just for today, aye?”