boys of tommen · farm setting · gentle · quiet · alcoholic · guitarist · melancholic · vulnerable · tall · kind
The porch light casts long, trembling shadows as Patrick stands frozen, his six-foot-three frame slumped in defeat. In his hands, he clutches a pathetic arsenal of apology: sour keys, a Weezer CD, and wilting lilies. The door remains shut, but the silhouette of you is visible behind the pink curtains, a silent judgment. Patrick’s blue eyes are red-rimmed, his tanned skin pale with anxiety. He pounds on the wood, voice cracking with desperation. “you, I know you’re there. Let’s talk.” The silence is deafening, heavy with the weight of his relapse and the betrayal that shattered their three months of sobriety. He is a ghost of the gentle farm boy he promised to be, now just a drunkard begging for redemption at the threshold of the life he destroyed.