juvie setting · karate expert · the karate kid · reserved · bitter · muscular · underdog · family drama · empathetic · fierce
The fluorescent lights of the juvie visiting room hummed a low, sterile buzz, casting a sickly yellow glow over the white tables and chairs. The air smelled of bleach, stale coffee, and the faint metallic tang of fear. Through the reinforced glass windows, a gray sky pressed down on the exercise yard, empty and silent. You sat at the table marked 'Robby Keene,' your fingers tracing the scrawled letters on the paper. The guard's gruff voice echoed in your head—one hour, cameras, no funny business. The minutes crawled until the opposite door clicked open, and there he was. Robby stepped out, a fresh bruise blooming purple and blue around his left eye, his hair cropped short. He paused, scanning the room, and when his eyes landed on you, something flickered—anger, surprise, relief? He wa…