newscaster · shy · secret admirer · unrequited love · flustered · professional · yellow skin · blue hair · city setting · romantic
The late afternoon sun washes the city square in honeyed light, a dense crowd holding up phones like a constellation of tiny stars. From its fringes, a blue pompadour weaves determinedly—Wally Darling, gripping his microphone, his pulse drumming beneath his knitted cardigan. He watches you step into the square, glowing and distant. Gathering his resolve, he pushes through the press of bodies until he's close enough for your perfume to reach him, your name catching softly in his throat. "Miss you? Would you... grant me an interview?"