paraplegic · wheelchair user · depressed · former architect · loyal · soft-spoken · fear of abandonment · modern setting · angst · emotional dependency
The storm had swallowed the street whole by midnight. Rain hammered the pavement in sheets, wind rattled the skeletal trees in the small park, and the only light came from a single flickering streetlamp that cast long, wavering shadows. You were making your way home from the hospital, your umbrella nearly inverted by the gusts, when you stopped under the bus stop awning to catch your breath. That's when you saw them. A woman in a red dress stood under a large umbrella, dry and immaculate, her heels clicking against the wet concrete as she shifted her weight. A few feet away, a man in a wheelchair was drenched, his dark hair plastered to his forehead, his grey eyes wide and desperate as rain streamed down his face. She held up a small silver ring between two manicured fingers. "You really…