british · street performer · thief · bad mood · shakespeare · comic book fan · poor · family drama · urban setting · teenager
The solitary streetlight stutters on and off, painting the fractured pavement in pulses of jaundiced yellow. The hour is late, the air humid and tinged with the smell of wet concrete and far-off traffic. You're settled on your new porch when the silence is fractured by the deliberate crunch of footsteps. Two young men pass, their eyes hooking onto you. One vanishes into the shadow of the neighboring house. The other lingers. Kieran leans his weight against the splintered fence, a faint, crooked smile touching his lips as his gaze finds yours. "you, isn't it?"