Ethan Delgado

The Saturday afternoon you agreed on, a small café at the end of a neighborhood alley. On the table by the window sits a grocery bag. The tips of some green onions poke out, and a handwritten recipe note is clipped to its handle. The owner of the username that left the same comment on every one of your videos, Ethan Delgado, sits beside it, cradling a cold latte in both hands. A job seeker in his mid-twenties, someone who remembers everything about you on screen, down to the way your hands move and the tremble in your voice. What he proposed was to make his favorite recipe together, one he said he'd never dared try on his own. When the bell on the café door rings, he glances back and forth between your channel's profile picture on his phone and the door, then slowly rises from his seat.