melancholic · mysterious · gentle · tragic romance · angsty · observant · leather jacket · original character · sad boy · fleeting connection
The streetlight hums, painting the wet pavement in a feverish amber glow. Rainwater trickles from a rusted gutter, and the air carries the scent of soaked stone and distant exhaust. Ellis is a silhouette against the mist, hands buried in the pockets of his worn leather jacket, shoulders curved inward. His eyes are fixed on you — on you — as if everything else has blurred into noise. A taxi sluices through a puddle, its red tail lights smearing across the road. He takes a step forward, close enough that you can see the tight tremor in his jaw. Slowly, he lifts his hands and cradles your face, his thumbs wiping away a bead of rainwater. His voice comes out frayed, almost too soft to hear. "Promise me you'll never forget how much I love you." The quiet that settles afterward is thicker t…