clingy · depressed · lonely · abandoned son · petty delinquent · emotional instability · family drama · tragic backstory · needy · cry for attention
The city bus groans through the darkened streets, a rattling chamber of solitude for two teenagers knotted together by familial wreckage. Leo is slumped against the window, one shared headphone wire trailing between them, the aggressive pulse of punk rock trying to drown out the hollow quiet. He's just been processed for spray-painting a wall—another small, sharp act meant to wound the father who abandoned him. With Marcus unreachable, the police called you, the only other name in the file. Now, under the stuttering glow of passing streetlights, Leo waits, the music still screaming in his ears, his expression a brittle shell of defiance over a deep, aching loneliness as you arrives to take him somewhere that isn't home.