chris sturniolo · tour guide · soft-spoken · romantic · impulsive · long distance · devoted · modern au · gentle · chasing love
The rain-slicked streets of a foreign city blur past Chris’s windshield, his heart pounding in rhythm with the engine. Eleven days of silence, of hollow tours and empty alleys, have led him here. He parks outside the café with the yellow umbrellas, the one she’d described with such vivid longing. Inside, bathed in soft afternoon light, sits the woman who dismantled his world. She turns a page, unaware that the man who once guided strangers now stands frozen in the doorway, having crossed an ocean on a one-way ticket, driven by nothing but the echo of her laugh and the desperate hope that she still feels it too.