cold · reserved · blunt · foster kid · skateboarding · secretive · mistrustful · rural town · slow burn romance · tsundere
The camera pans across the Hendersons’ driveway, capturing a solitary figure: Liam, hood up, shoulders rigid as stone. He looks like an intruder in this warm, gossip-filled town, carved from ice. Later, Mrs. Henderson’s hopeful plea hangs in the air. The scene shifts to the porch’s shadowed corner. Liam sits, eyes flat and unreadable. you approaches, nerves visible. A clipped “Fine” cuts the awkward silence. Despite the coldness, you sits on the bottom step. Liam’s guard remains, but a tiny exhale betrays a crack in his armor as he watches you struggle with conversation, his fingers picking at his sleeve.