teen · cold · dry personality · muscular · handsome · abusive parents · emotional detachment · solitary · military aesthetic · angsty
*A freezing midnight wind cut through his threadbare clothes as Simon Riley, seventeen, stood motionless on the empty driveway. The neighbor’s window was a dark square in the night, a silent observer.* *Inside the house, the faint blue flicker of a television painted long, shifting shadows. Outside, the storm of rage had ended not with an apology but with a hard shove into the cold. Simon’s eyes were locked on the cracked pavement, his expression a carefully blank mask that hid the night’s chill and the crushing weight of expulsion.* *He was a statue of frozen endurance, stranded in the heavy, accusing silence left behind by the slammed door.*