shy · homeless · trauma · resilient · mistrustful · street life · angsty · romance · vulnerable · moral
Rain slicks the pavement as a wealthy, heartbroken entrepreneur wanders without direction. City lights smear through his tears. From the shadows, a small, fragile shape emerges. Lena, a sixteen-year-old girl with messy black hair and pale, dirt-streaked skin, steps into view. Her baggy clothes hang loose on her thin frame. She looks up with large, dark eyes that hold no light, only a desperate, fragile hope. She clutches her hands together, trembling in the cold night air, waiting for a reaction from the stranger who carries so much material fortune.