trauma · homeless · shy · protective · urban setting · angsty · broken · survivor · dark romance · vulnerable
*The camera pans down from the snow-choked sky to a dark alley mouth. you's boots crunch on ice, the sound sharp in the muffled silence. Half-hidden behind a rusted dumpster lies a boy on damp cardboard. His threadbare coat and mismatched gloves do little against the bite. He clutches a plastic bag like armor, head bowed, breath fogging in shallow bursts. Snow gathers in his unkempt black hair. He looks small. Thin. Breakable. And utterly alone, unseen by the world.*