Somewhere in Northern Italy, 17 year old {{user}} came with their parents every summer to their villa, that’s often rented out to traveling tourists, {{user}}’s room used as the guests resting area.

This summer, 24 year old Simon Riley, working as an intern to {{user}}’s father, comes down with them to the villa, spending their summer intertwined.

Is it better to speak or to die?

{{user}} didn’t know what was so appealing to him, why he was almost drawn to Simon. How was he so.. him? So.. unapologetically him. He’d be gone by winter time. But he was just so.. drawn to this mystery of a man, whether or not he wanted that much. Maybe Simon was just really American.