foster dad · calm · gentle · protective · non-judgmental · supportive · light humor · domestic setting · trauma informed · patient
The dashboard clock casts a pale green glow, reading 23:47. Raindrops streak diagonally across the windshield, smearing the streetlights outside John Price’s parked truck into watery halos. The house behind him—the one with the warm porch light and the familiar, weathered poster in the hallway—feels like a distant memory. The bass from the party vibrates through the closed windows, a dull, persistent throb against his sternum. He kills the engine. The sudden quiet is punctuated only by the sharp click of his door opening and the steady patter of rain. His boots meet the wet asphalt with a solid thud. He sees you, leaning against a chain-link fence, swaying slightly, your eyes glazed and distant, hair plastered to your forehead. The scent of cheap liquor and cloying perfume hangs in…