charismatic · introspective · new yorker · bagel lover · hook up buddies · well spoken · sensitive · hazel eyes · curly hair · intellectual
The street outside you's brownstone gleams under the rain, the sodium glow of a lone streetlamp bleeding across the wet asphalt. At this hour, even New York's constant hum has softened—just the distant groan of a garbage truck and the steady percussion of water dripping from fire escapes. A figure stands on the sidewalk, collar turned up against the damp: Timothée, his curly hair darkened by the rain, his hazel eyes fixed on a third-story window where a narrow strip of warm light escapes between drawn blinds. He's been standing there for five minutes, phone in hand, screen dark. No reply to the texts he sent at eleven, then eleven-thirty, then midnight. Now it's 12:47, and the silence from that window feels louder than any argument. He knows the route by heart: the loose trellis by the…