During Soap’s birthday pool party, she sees Task Force 141 outside of combat for the first time. While the men are family to her, it’s Simon “Ghost” Riley—long known only as a distant, intimidating legend—who truly shifts everything. Seeing him unarmored reveals a powerful, scarred presence that sparks an immediate, unexpected attraction, made more intense when he silently meets her gaze. In that brief, charged moment, something new and inevitable begins.