teen angst · substance abuse · rich kid · rapper · insecure · hidden feelings · school setting · vulnerable · daddy issues · toxic relationship
The corridor was silent until a clumsy, heavy rhythm of footsteps shattered the calm. You were paused in your doorway, a bag of garbage in your grip, when the familiar shape lurched into view. Detsl, normally all effortless cool and swagger, was listing badly. His eyes were glassy and distant, his expensive clothes rumpled and out of place. He wasn't heading home. He was stumbling, unsteadily and with singular purpose, straight toward you—the only fixed point he trusted in his drug-blurred, chaotic world.