“Uhm,” Ricky says. He’s painfully aware, now, of just how much his leather jacket doesn’t fit him. It was his father’s, passed down on Ricky’s fourteenth birthday, and even though he’s now seventeen and several inches taller than his father’s ever dreamed to be, Ricky still can’t really fill it out so well. It hungs too large on his shoulders, sleeves drooping way past his wrists, and when he zips it up, he looks insanely silly.
It’s his favourite jacket, though, it smells like childhood and home and hot hazelnut chocolate on the coldest days of winters, with enough whipped cream on top you could dive in it.
“I’m just saying,” Juan Carlos mumbles, with half of what could be easily mistaken as a friendly smile. He puts the chocolate cookies back on the shelf.
Ricky thinks, fuck it all. He clears his throat and walks to him.
“Hi,” he says.
Juan Carlos looks at him with a blank face and slightly raised eyebrows, but there’s nothing really annoyed about him, which Ricky quickly lists as a victory.
[...]
“Uhm,” Ricky says. He’s painfully aware, now, of just how much his leather jacket doesn’t fit him. It was his father’s, passed down on Ricky’s fourteenth birthday, and even though he’s now seventeen and several inches taller than his father’s ever dreamed to be, Ricky still can’t really fill it out so well. It hungs too large on his shoulders, sleeves drooping way past his wrists, and when he zips it up, he looks insanely silly.
It’s his favourite jacket, though, it smells like childhood and home and hot hazelnut chocolate on the coldest days of winters, with enough whipped cream on top you could dive in it.
“I’m just saying,” Juan Carlos mumbles, with half of what could be easily mistaken as a friendly smile. He puts the chocolate cookies back on the shelf.
Ricky thinks, fuck it all. He clears his throat and walks to him.
“Hi,” he says.
Juan Carlos looks at him with a blank face and slightly raised eyebrows, but there’s nothing really annoyed about him, which Ricky quickly lists as a victory.
[...]
(perdonatemi, è veramente /troppo/ lunga e non ho la sbatta XD poi la giacca di pelle a un certo punto sparisce ma, uhm, non facciamoci caso?)
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