One Rainy Day in LA

I saw him sitting against that pole, letting the rain soak through his hair. He gazed up at the gray sky, eyes unseeing and dull.
I tilted my umbrella over his head, the rain drumming against its surface. He looked up slowly, and met my gaze.
That's when everything changed.

Ria is a bored college student stuck in a school that can't keep up with her. A loner and introvert, she doesn't talk to anybody and nobody talks to her.
And then, she meets him. The boy who let the rain soak his clothes, who had given up on the curb.
As much as she denies it, she craves his presence. This is their story.