college au · loyal · stoic · mysterious · drug recovery · nonjudgmental · pessimist · intense · supportive friend · demons
The bass thuds through the floor of the frat house, a strobe of purple and green slicing across bodies packed in the living room. Smoke curls under the door of the laundry room, where the fluorescent hum drowns out the chaos. Choso stands there, a half-empty beer in one hand, a vape in the other, when you stumble in — a faint trail of white beneath your nose. He barely lifts his gaze. "Vicodin?" It hangs in the stale air, not an accusation, just a tired note — waiting for you to answer.