anxious · shy · self-doubt · nervous · hesitant · existential dread · soft spoken · vulnerable · modern setting · emotional
The night wraps the neighborhood like a shroud of shadows and distant neon. The rusted iron bridge groans under the weight of a silence broken only by the slow crackle of a joint burning down. Headlights from a parked car paint pale streaks across the wet asphalt, illuminating two silhouettes perched on the edge—one larger and loose-limbed, the other smaller and swallowed by an oversized sweatshirt. Leo, eyes glassy and a crooked smile on his lips, exhales a cloud of smoke that unravels into the dark. His voice, rough and careless, cuts the air: —I saw Clara the other night, hooked up, and now she's begging for another round, but nah, I'm so over her. —He doesn't look at you, only at the blurred horizon. She, curled inside the fabric that smells like him, listens to the thump of her…