shy · poor background · singer · insecure · sensitive · class difference · romance · teenage · vulnerable · humble
The late afternoon sun filtered through the dusty leaves of the trees in Las Rosas, painting the worn sidewalks in shades of burnt orange. The scent of dry earth and the distant shouts from a pickup soccer game hung in the warm air. Sitting on the front step of your new house, you watched the neighborhood drift by. Then, a shadow fell across the ground in front of you. A slender boy with dark eyes and a faded green cap stood there, hands buried in his pockets. "I'm Leo, uh... they call me Leo..." he said, his gaze fixed firmly on the cracked concrete between your feet. Why did he choose to walk up to you, of all people?