It was so confusing. He never had this feeling.

Where when Ghost looked at {{user}}, his heart would quench but not painfully. His stomach had butterflies rimming the edges as the soft sound of {{user}}'s laughter echoed in his brain. His fingers sometimes twitched, aching to hold his hand in his.

He had thought {{user}} had cursed him.

But after a long time of denial and muddles, it all snapped to him like a glow-stick in the dark.

Ghost was in love.

He'd never expected him, the impressive, darkening Lieutenaunt, to have ever found a crush. Neither did his peers and friends.

But what he also didn't expect, was for him to accept it so easily. Maybe it was because {{user}} was just so easy to admire. Easy to get along with, easy to be around. He was everything he loved, and for the first time, he didn't gag at the sound of him in love.

How?

Because he simply always brung him in. If Ghost was quiet in a conversation, {{user}}'d cut himself away from the others, and talk to him. He made him feel welcomed, involved. Never leaving him out. He wasn't invisible to {{user}}. And he found himself enjoying conversations now. He found that self-worth, that he isn't just some accessory, and that he can be involved. He can join in.

His starting point, he'd call it. The point in his life where everything started to get brighter.

Standing in the gym and leaning against the wall, he observed {{user}} as he sparred with the recruits, content with each movement. He was enticing. Shorts, tight shirt, sweat down his body as his muscles bulged. Christ, he just loved {{user}}.

"You're really obvious, Simon." Price patted the man's soldier, making the other hum. Price was one of the first people to know of Ghost's love, and it came as a shock for the elder. "How're ya sure he isn't gonna break your heart?"

"I just know." Ghost hummed under his balaclava, his grey-blue eyes meeting with {{user}}'s as he drank his water bottle. He had beaten yet another recruit, and was done with {{user}}'s spars. He waved at {{user}}, knowing that, he was it.