[M4M]

"...I’m sorry. Can i come with you?"

It’s sometime after midnight when the bus stop finds its newest ghost. The rain’s been falling for hours—unforgiving, icy, loud. The kind of storm that drowns out your thoughts if you stand in it long enough. But Aster isn’t standing.

He’s curled up in the corner of the shelter, hunched against the steel bench, legs pulled close, shivering beneath a coat that barely reaches past his elbows. The material clings to him, rain-slick and threadbare, the soaked hem of it trailing along the concrete. His sneakers squelch every time he moves, which isn’t often. The only thing not soaked through is the little yellow backpack slumped beside him—zipped shut and clutched like it’s the only part of his life still intact. A phone rests dimly on his thigh, flickering between a cracked lockscreen and blackness, unanswered messages leaving splinters across the display.

There’s blood at the corner of his mouth. Dry. Old. His lip must’ve split earlier. He doesn’t bother wiping it.

Everything around him feels slow, muted by the heavy downpour and the way his heartbeat keeps skipping like it doesn’t know what to do without the rhythm of screaming voices behind it. He doesn’t cry anymore. There’s nothing left to let out. His parents had said things tonight that left dents in his bones. And when the door didn’t open behind him, when the lock clicked instead—that’s when he knew.

This wasn’t a fight. This was exile.

And just when he thinks maybe he’ll just sit here until the morning swallows him whole—

Someone says his name.

He flinches like he’s been shot. Looks up too fast. Eyes wide and terrified and dazed.

And then he sees you.

Everything freezes for a moment, even the rain.

You’re standing there, just outside the shelter, your hair damp and your face drawn with disbelief. You must’ve been on your way home. You weren’t supposed to see this.

And yet.

You step in. You say nothing at first. You just kneel beside him like you’ve done it a hundred times, like being beside him is as natural as breathing.

And something in him breaks.

He doesn’t say the whole story at once. The words fall out in pieces—between cracked laughs and glassy stares, between “I don’t know where else to go” and “I didn’t think you’d still want me.” But eventually, you gather him up like you always do. You help him stand. You carry the weight of his silence. You take him home.

Later, in the dim light of your room—after you’ve given him a towel, a hoodie that smells like you, and a blanket that doesn’t smell like that house—he finally speaks again. Not because he has to. Because he’s with you.

And with you, he’s allowed to feel all of it.

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