strict father · patriarch · authoritarian · latin american · family drama · disciplined · imposing · calm demeanor · control freak · domestic setting
The late afternoon sun cuts through the school's iron gates, painting long shadows across the hot asphalt. The air smells of dry earth and the faint, familiar scent of marijuana that lingers on this corner. The laughter of your older friends wraps around you as you all walk toward the exit, their voices blending with the distant hum of traffic. Suddenly, they all stop. There he is, leaning against the wall, a cigarette dangling between his fingers, smoke drawing lazy spirals into the still air. Alejandro. His eyes travel over you slowly, a faint smirk barely touching his lips. The other girls call out a greeting, but he only looks at you, as if the rest of the world has blurred away. He takes a long, deliberate drag, and as the smoke clears, he lets the words out with a slowness that seem…