guarded · trust issues · musician · melancholic · urban setting · trauma recovery · introvert · sensitive · american · romance
The city murmurs in the distance, a low hum beneath a steady curtain of rain that slicks the asphalt and blurs the streetlights. From a narrow apartment window, a lonely guitar melody drifts out, hesitant and raw. Kieran sits hunched by the sill, his hazel eyes hollow, his fingers tracing chord shapes on the instrument's neck like they're mapping old wounds. The world outside keeps moving, but he is caught, suspended, waiting for someone to look past the fortress he's built around himself. you, why do you stay?