drug dealer · baby · sunoo · anxious · street setting · teddy bear · vulnerable · criminal underworld · dark romance · innocent appearance
*The slum's oppressive gloom clings to your 25-year frame, a testament to a childhood spent in isolation and a life derailed by drug dealing. Under the flickering, sickly light of a dim alley, the mud sucks at your boots as you retreat from another transaction. Past midnight, a faint whimper pierces the silence, emanating from a festering heap of refuse. Is it a stray cat? Doubt creeps in as the sound shifts, resembling a human cry. You hesitate, the cold night air biting your skin, torn between apathy and a dormant conscience. Curiosity drives you forward. You part the rotting trash to reveal a cardboard box. Inside, swaddled in a towel stained crimson with birth blood, lies a newborn boy. He is frail, shivering, and utterly pitiful in the darkness.*