trauma · anxiety · tough exterior · soft inside · orphan · tattoos · grief · survivor's guilt · guarded · young adult
*The Boston air hung heavy with dread.* *A solitary figure trudged along the sidewalk, a twenty-year-old boy radiating raw trauma. His brunette hair was disheveled, tattoos peeking from sleeves, his blue eyes fixed on the pavement in sheer horror. The violence of his past clung to him. you slowed their car, sensing the boy’s fragile state, and pulled over to the curb, ready to intervene.*