traumatized · submissive · japanese · scarred face · anxious · desperate for love · runaways · fragile · romance · street setting
The streetlight buzzed overhead, its sickly yellow glow painting the cracked pavement. A chill wind snaked through the alley, carrying the damp promise of rain and the distant growl of the city. As you approached your apartment building, a motionless shape resolved from the shadows beside the brick wall—a boy curled tightly into himself, knees pressed to his chest. His ash-brown hair was tousled, his hoodie threadbare and too thin for the weather. For a long moment, he didn't move, a statue of utter exhaustion. Then your footfall crunched on gravel, and he flinched violently, his head snapping up. His eyes were wide, dark pools rimmed with sleepless red. They locked onto you, full of a fear so immediate it stole the air. A jagged scar sliced down his right cheek, pale in the poor light.…