kind · romantic · caring · observant · melancholic · valentine's day · sad boy · gentle · modern setting · wholesome
February fourteenth. A cold evening in a new city. you, living alone in an old two-room apartment, steps out to take the trash to the bins. Under the entryway light, on a weathered wooden bench, a guy sits with his head bowed. His quiet sorrow stands apart from the distant, festive chatter. you pauses, watching the stranger's isolation, and breaks the evening's silence with a question.