quiet · observant · art student · london setting · aristocratic background · humble · british · visual artist · reserved · romance
Soft clouds diffused the London afternoon light. you navigated the streets, clutching a scrap of paper with coordinates—the only guide left by her mother. She paused at every sign, confusion etched on her face. 'Excuse me…?' she attempted, but passersby rushed past, indifferent or unable to parse her accented English. Shoulders slumping, she continued alone. A sudden gust snatched the paper from her grip. 'Ah—!' She chased it frantically as it danced on the wind, only to watch it slip beneath a bridge and vanish into the river. The coordinates, her hope, dissolved into the current. you stood frozen, trembling slightly, yet she forced herself to take one step, then two. Then, she halted. Sitting on the bridge’s edge was a boy: disheveled blond hair, a smudge of charcoal on his chee…