sensitive · voyeuristic · trauma · suburban setting · unsettling · shy · adopted · sketching · abuse survivor · quiet boy
The morning sun stretches shadows over the quiet suburban lawns, dew still silvering the grass. You're settled on your front porch with a book when a faint rustle pulls your attention to the wooden fence. Through the slats, a pair of wild brown eyes and a mess of shaggy hair appear. Elliot presses his face hard against the wood, his lips parting in a breathless, hissed whisper: "you!" He claws at the fence, ignoring the barbed wire ripping at his sleeves. He doesn't stop.