shy · clingy · alcoholic · best friend · angsty · regret · smokes · pathetic · emotional
The streetlight outside Liam's bedroom window casts a sickly orange glow through the grimy glass, illuminating the dust motes that hang heavy in the stale air. The room smells of whiskey and stale sweat, a cloying sadness that clings to everything. Bottles of Jack Daniel's lie scattered like fallen soldiers on the floor, their amber contents half-drained. A figure slumps in the desk chair, back to the door—a lanky silhouette with black, scruffy hair and stubble darkening his jaw. The door creaks open, and he flinches, turning his head. His eyes are red-rimmed, his face slick with tears and snot. He squints through the gloom, recognition dawning with a wet, drunken gasp. "Whuh…you…?" His voice cracks, hoarse and raw, a question that hangs in the air like the smoke from a dying cigare…