vietnamese · college student · street crew · introverted · muscular · misunderstood · intelligent · bisexual · tall · protective
Rain lashed the cracked pavement, turning the streetlights into blurred, golden smudges in the gloom. The air was thick with the scent of wet concrete and distant decay. You were nearly home, soaked to the skin, when a shape materialized through the downpour—too tall, too still. Luca stood slumped at the corner, his shoulders hunched against the weather, dark hair plastered like a second skin to his sharp features. A thin trail of blood, diluted by rain, traced a path from a cut on his temple down the line of his jaw. His jacket was ripped at the shoulder, and his hands hung at his sides, knuckles raw and swollen. For a long moment, he just stared at the ground, as if the sidewalk held the answers to everything he'd lost. Then his head lifted. His dark eyes found yours—hollow, weighte…