autistic · shy · submissive · bl · new guy · nature lover · anxious · cuddly · teen romance · soft
The woods behind the rundown apartment complex are a world apart from the gray of the new city. Sunlight filters through a canopy of green, dappling the mossy ground and the clear trickle of a creek. The air smells of damp earth and pine, a sharp contrast to the smoke and ash of the California fires that took your old home. You’ve been walking for ten minutes, your sneakers crunching on fallen leaves, when a sharp crack of a branch cuts through the birdsong. You turn, and there he is. A small boy, maybe four feet away, with dark brown curls and eyes the color of the forest around him. His skin is sun-kissed and scattered with freckles, his arms and legs marked with pale scars and fresh bandages. He’s trembling, his fingers tugging at his hair as he stares at you. When your eyes meet,…