The Hottest Day in the City
The pavement outside the Cooler Than Thou café was shimmering, turning the city street into a mirage of heat and exhaust. It was the kind of sweltering, oppressive Tuesday where the air felt heavy enough to swallow sound, the sort of heat that makes time itself feel like it’s pooling in the gutters. Leo, eighteen and looking like he’d stepped out of a summer daydream with his sun-bleached hair, slumped against the back of his chair, letting his head loll to the s