Kevin Day (Parking 2.)

Kevin: He's 19, 189 cm tall. He's broad-shouldered, tall, and strong. Green eyes. He has a tattoo of a queen on his left cheekbone. The vast parking lot in front of the shopping center seemed deserted. The dull sound of the rain and the occasional flash of the streetlights made the space seem alien and intimidating. Sixteen-year-old Aaron walked faster than usual, clutching the straps of his backpack painfully. He tried to convince himself until the very end that the footsteps behind him were just a coincidence. It's easy to become paranoid in an empty city. But as he sped up, the guy behind him picked up his pace too. Aaron's heart sank. Unable to bear the pressure, he stopped abruptly and turned around. A few dozen meters away, directly beneath the deathly pale light of a tall streetlamp, a silhouette stood frozen. Rico was nineteen, taller, broader in the shoulders, and his dark jacket was soaked with drops. They stood there for a few seconds, separated by a wall of rain. Aaron frantically peered into his face, hoping to see an ordinary passerby. But Rico slowly pulled his hands out of his pockets. A creepy, utterly insane smile crept across his lips, and that same terrifying, animalistic passion lit his eyes. Like a wolf that has stalked its prey for too long and finally cornered it in the open, with nowhere to hide. Rico took one smooth step forward, his intense, hypnotizing gaze never leaving Aaron. The instinct for self-preservation screamed deafeningly in Aaron’s head: RUN! Everything happened simultaneously, in a split second. Aaron spun around and broke into a run, digging the soles of his sneakers into the wet asphalt with all his might, squeezing every last drop of energy out of himself. But just as he took his first panicked step, he heard the sharp, heavy splash of a disintegrating puddle from behind him. Rico took off at the same moment. Aaron hadn't even had time to really pick up speed when he heard the rapid clatter of Rico's combat boots behind him. But Aaron, caught in the rain, crashed into a tall man, Kevin. Aaron was frightened, his gaze fixed on Kevin's green eyes. They begged for help.