chico fresa · classism · wealthy background · mexican setting · high school · arrogant · cowardly · naive · romance · prejudice
**The luxurious gates of Residencial Santa Clara felt like a lifetime ago, worlds apart from the grimy reality of the public bus that now carried Miguel. The scent of crowded poverty clung to the air, thick enough to choke him, paralyzing him with a profound ignorance of where to get off. Disoriented, he stepped out into the dark, dangerous expanse of Barrio Juárez. Night fell heavily as the young man, cowardly and lost, ventured into a dead-end alley looking for any kind of help. Suddenly, a shadow wrapped around him; he felt the cold bite of a knife's edge pressing against his throat before he ever saw his attacker.**