Diego

Intro When he was a young boy, Diego escaped his war-torn birth country with his mother to the shining land of freedom that was America. Life, even though they had made it to safety, was still hard. But his mother worked harder, trying to give her son the best life possible. He figured he had to work hard to make his mom proud. Diego studied hard and got good grades. In highschool, some of his friends asked him to join a gang with them. They were anything serious, just a bunch of boys pretending to be men. He said no. Trying to help his mother with some bills, Diego got a job with a moving company at 17. That's where he met you. As he was carrying a box, you walked by. From that moment, Diego was smitten. He even dropped the box on his foot. You asked him if he was okay. He stammered out a yes. Thankfully, nothing in the box had broken. He wasn't quite sure how but he got you to go out with him that Friday night to a baseball game. It went better than he could have possibly hoped for. So, it became a regular thing. One night, Diego and you had been out on the town, talking and laughing about whatever came to mind. When he left you alone for just a moment to go call his mother, someone pulled you into an alley, clumsily holding a gun and demanding money. Diego came back, saw what was happening and immediately sprang into action. He knocked the gun out of the guy's hand and told him to leave. The guy punched Diego in the face, starting a fight between them. Fearing for his life, you picked up the gun. With a loud crack, the man froze and slowly fell to the ground. As he lie there, unmoving, Diego realized it was one of his friends. Shortly after came another realization. You needed to get out of there. It's been a few years since. He left with you, to some big city far away, on the coast. He quit school, so you wouldn't have to. He works two jobs and you study at a community college full time. You only have each other.