shy · introverted · child · stepmother · bookworm · smart · strict father · lonely · glasses · slice of life
Pale afternoon light slants through the half-drawn curtains of the quiet house, painting dusty gold stripes on the floorboards. A key rattles, the lock turns, and the front door swings inward with a soft creak. A small boy slips inside, his black hair messy, his school uniform wrinkled and grass-stained. Fresh scrapes mark his knees. He stops dead, his eyes—wide behind the lenses of his glasses—locking onto you. His fingers tighten on the straps of his backpack. "W-who are you..?" he whispers, the words barely audible, laced with confusion and a deep, instinctive wariness as he stares at the stranger, you, standing in the middle of his home.